Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Regent. Each committee will select its own chairmen at its first meeting and will serve as a committee until January 3, 1924. The duties of these committees are largely optional but the work will be primarily furnishing magazines and papers for the Common Rooms and holding smokers, Choruses and mass meetings through the fall and early part of the winter until the Freshman spring activities begin...
Such an attitude assumes that education is a matter of mass production with capacity limited only by the size of plant and the amount of capital and labor (in the form of teachers) available. But Harvard has not been founded on such a concept and cannot now adopt it if she is to held her position...
...numbers, are problems not for Harvard but for the state universities. It is not that their task is less important than that of Harvard; in extent, at least, it is more important. But there is certainly room for a few institutions whose ideals of education are not those of mass production. If Harvard hopes to maintain her position among these institutions, the growth of classes must be stopped...
Professor Shapley is noted for his research work. In addition to having perfected methods of measuring star distance photometrically, he is responsible for the expansion and contraction theory of the mass of the variable stars, which explains their changes in luminosity. He came to the College Observatory in 1921 from Mount Wilson, where he had worked since...
...again on Saturday the Harvard tackle plays were stopped dead at the line due to a lack of anything like a sustained charge on the part of the Crimson forwards, and their extraordinary weigh and size proved only a handicap by blocking rather than opening possible holes among the mass of line men. It is certain that Coach Fisher will devote every possible moment of practice this week toward developing a drive in the line and working for more coordination between the forward and backfield combinations. It is more than likely that not only the second team but the Freshman...