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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examination of the enrollment figures just published shows clearly that although the main interests of Harvard students are the same as in previous years they are constantly becoming more critical in their choice of individual courses. The all-star cast of the social sciences, headed by Economics A, History 1, and Government 1, in the order named, is still as popular as ever. Next place goes to the literature courses, and the fact that French E and German A run into big figures is due without doubt to the language requirement and not to any inherent attraction in themselves...
...accord with which members of the faculty and student body supported the idea of three-week reading periods stands by itself as a sign of the times. Whereas students in the main confessed their employment of their time for back work in regular courses, faculty members expressed their pleasure in the good work done on reading period assignments, and advocate even more of this non-lecture method of instruction. Both sides are in favor of easy, interesting reading, and choice of books. Obviously a man who has let his work slide for a month or more will take little...
...service will be conducted by Rev. Raymond Calkins '90, Minister of the First Church in Cambridge. This parish is one of the six whose ministers, along with the six magistrates, constituted the original Board of Overseers. Attendance at the service, which will be held in the main part of Memorial Church instead of in Appleton Chapel, will be limited...
...main story deals with Thomas Sutpen, an ambitious planter who settled near Jefferson, Miss, in 1833. Another tale deals with Quentin Compson, a Harvard freshman born and raised in Jefferson, who. in 1910, tried to figure out what had lain behind the Sutpen tragedy. A third deals with Rosa Coldfield, Sutpen's sister-in-law, and with Quentin's father, who told Quentin what they knew of the Sutpens. (Still a fourth story can be detected only by readers of The Sound and the Fury.) Thus readers must not only figure out what happened to the Sutpens...
...mood of intense disgust, its savage satirical portraits, its hatred of hypocrisy and its wild, grotesque humor. But unlike Journey to the End of the Night, it is compact and tightly-woven. the action taking place in 24 hours and the large cast of characters representing the main types of French provincial society at a moment of great tension. Conceived in the grand manner of pre-War fiction, with a gigantic mock-heroic central character and a host of petty Flaubertian supernumeraries, it is nevertheless modern in spirit, presents a picture of social anarchy that few readers are likely...