Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establishing a new field of concentration in "Sociology and Social Ethics" the Faculty desires, as in the case of "History and Literature", to recognize an identity of subject matter that tends to be hidden by the more or less artificial barriers that separate the departments of a modern university. At the same time there is an equally strong desire to avoid the shallowness and sentimentality that are associated with what is called "breadth of view". Henry James once referred to the field of all things human and divine which was the topic of study at the Concord School of Philosophy...
Assuming that the lady is right, the matter presents its curious aspects. Perspicacious gentlemen within these borders have long aimed their darts at the Mrs. Grundy they claim to be masquerading behind Uncle Sam's chin-whiskers and new horn-rimmed glasses. After reading the editorial page of Judge one wonders how it ever manages to appear without being suppressed; after glancing at Mr. Mencken's polemics, one feels that the author faces martyrdom every time he sits down to his typewriter. Now the Mexican lady accuses this land of being the home not of liberty, but of license...
Attempts have been made before to arouse student interest and discussion on affairs of the University, but in the past such discussion has been sporadic. If there is any excuse at all for the printing of communications, a matter closely related to the curriculum of Harvard would seem to be a legitimate subject...
Though yesterday morning was to have been the end, so far as the CRIMSON was concerned, for the English 72 matter, letters have kept pouring into the Crimson Building in such numbers that the editor is loath to suppress what has been the most general display of interest on the part of students for some years. Many of the letters received have not seemed to shed any new light on the affairs of English 72 and of the English Department in general, but the two letters printed in an adjacent column are sober enough to warrant consideration...
...eminent young scholar against whom they were directed, they cannot fail to decrease his interest in teaching and in the course and to break down the feeling of close personal contact on which all successful teaching must rest. In addition, by thus twitting him in public on a matter in which he knows himself somewhat weak, you have done your best toward fortifying any tendency which might delay his progress in learning to teach...