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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...task in this age and particularly when he has written so many in the same vein. Not even the most vigorous literary adventurer can endure too many adventures. So this last leaves Mr. Farnol rather weak. Yet there are still a great many world-worn moderns, tired equally of Main Street and Mencken, who wish occasionally to roam along paths--and "The High Adventure" leads them thus. So perhaps it is not fair to damn, even with faint praise. "The High Adventure" will beguile many a world-worn modern--and more than beguile many a boy of fourteen...
...clear and cogent reasoning. It is of course, based on the present condition of unwieldiness, of dispersion, of separation and hopeless unacquaintance on the part of the great body of students. Harvard, in its present condition, cannot be a unit. It is too large to accomplish one of its main purposes. The plan of the committee of the Student Council is to split the upper class students (the Freshman, by that time, being all required to live in college dormitories) into six residential units, each having its common room and dining hall--the whole purpose being to supply an opportunity...
...order to realize the larger purpose of philosophy which the committee has in mind in advancing this recommendation, it will be necessary to reorganize Philosophy A upon a new plan. . . . Philosophy A should remain a survey course but it should abandon the attempt to present the subject historically. . . . The main purpose of the course should be to offer the student a sound basis upon which to build his own philosophy by giving him rounded estimates of a few of the most important interpretations of life...
Most attractive and significant perhaps of all the main proposals set forth is that for the progressive sub-division of the College into smaller groups numbering each a few hundred members. The plan itself is by no means new, but serious, open and general discussion of it is. There are unquestionably grave obstacles to its realization, and it will have to be determined how decisive these would prove. But certainly if the system were effectually established, it would remove many of the most fundamental faults in Harvard life. It appears to be in complete harmony with the genius and traditions...
Travel agencies have been the main stimuli to world traveling as it exists today. To see Europe or other lands most comfortably, most expeditiously, with the accumulation of the most salient bits of information, more and more voyagers have taken recourse to the worldwide organization of such agencies...