Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Passage of the resolution came after lengthy discussion. The matter was suggested at the last meeting before vacation and durisg the holidays George G. Hedblom '37, secretary of the Council, sent a letter to all members summarizing the reasons advanced at this meeting and asking consideration of these before the project was brought up for a final vote last night...
...courses come to use greater numbers of books and various lecturers, the need for correlated reading lists cries out louder; Economics 2a and 41 are specific cases where review for the examination would be immeasureably helped by a full printed outline. Meeting the students half way in this matter will not reduce the standards of learning a whit, but during the cramming season, it will make the men less dependent on outside sources...
...many students with problems that need straightening out go to him; the Deans in charge of Freshmen do invaluable work. And in the tutoring schools on the square, and even in some of the stores, are people whose advice helps many a harassed youth find himself. However, this delicate matter of helping young men through a difficult period should properly be left in the hand of the college of which the young men are members. The adviser system, in spite of attempts to improve it, is still a ghastly failure. With this in view, Phillips Brooks House is nurturing...
...Adam is the question of the suitability of the S.B. degree; yet like the pollution of that scriptural figure time has not satisfactorily disposed of the matter. Still there are men who graduate from Harvard and, though they have not concentrated in any scientific field, receive S.B. degrees because Latin conjugations or Greek declensions had no appeal for them in prep school. Their immediate reaction is open or secret ire and a strong impulse to kick Harvard officials where they will feel it most. A man concentrating in Music and gaining for his effort a S.B. learns too early...
...time being. The undisclosed group who wanted Carib's share of the Barco was, it turned out, in fact acting for Socony and Texaco. Knowing this, little Carib was obviously in a better position to bargain. It was announced that "the parties in interest have taken the matter under consideration." presumably meaning more money for Carib...