Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problems which is always confronting us is taxation. With the recent increases in public expenditures that problem is becoming more and more pressing. As an indication of how much attention is being paid to it in legislative circles it may be stated that during the years 1927-28, no less than twenty-two special investigating bodies were in operation in as many states in an attempt to find more equitable means of distributing the burden to the tax-paying public...
...May I be as heretical as to venture the opinion that over-indulgence in confinement "with as fine a group of men as will be associated with the House as Tutors and with as comfortable and agreeable surroundings as the Houses would afford" may not be as healthy as it is agreeable. It would be well suited to prep schools or graduate schools or any other highly specialized institutions. It would indeed produce a highly specialized sort of life, like that in the English universities or the small colleges in America. Indeed it seems that college life is inevitably...
This afternoon the University squash team A will play an important match with Newton Center, leaders in the State interclub squash series. The result of this match will not be decisive but will give an indication as to what may be expected later in the season. The competition will be stiff this year in view of the fact that no team in the leading division has won more than three-fifths of its matches. Most of the teams have two matches behind them and of the 26 players in class. A only ten remain unbeaten and of these but four...
Among the more important of these activities are researches by Professor Dearborn and his associates in the Laboratory of Educational Psychology on the processes and mechanisms of reading. Defects in reading may result form wrong habits established in early years and may prevent the attainment of normal speed in reading throughout life. Slow reading is a tremendous handicap in study at every level. The work already done in this subject at the Graduate School of Education promises to lay bare the causes of difficulty in reading and provide meant for at least a partial correction...
...may be well to point out that a College official such as the House Master not only identifies himself more closely with the properly nonpartisan attitude of the institution which he represents than does a professor but also comes into a new relationship with the undergraduate. The fact that many Harvard men are thoroughly out of sympathy with the aims and methods of the Watch and Ward Society makes it doubly desirable that University officials keep themselves from mixing in the many controversial questions with which the Society busies itself...