Word: mens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choosing of the undergraduate personnel of the Houses undoubtedly presents some of the gravest problems in connection with the House Plan. The restricted numbers for which the first two Houses provide makes it inevitable that there will be many opportunities for ill-feeling on the part of excluded men. If the responsibility of selection rests with a committee of several different persons it would make it difficult for these men to get adequate explanation of their exclusion. False impressions of favoritism on the part of some members of the committee would be allowed to flourish, and in general the situation...
...House Masters have wisely decided to assume the ultimate responsibility of selecting men for the Houses themselves and although they will consult with the other faculty members of the Houses in making their choice, the undergraduates involved will know definitely that the House Master has had the last word and will be ready to discuss his case with...
...Houses will bring a much larger number of men under one roof than there are in the usual Harvard dormitory, and every effort must be made to avoid the atmosphere of regularity and regimentation which is common under such conditions and reaches its height in the army barracks. This can only be done by spending much time and money in the arrangement of the furnishing. The House Masters have recognized this fact, but the economies and conveniences of management to be derived from having all-the furniture of a set pattern, as is the case in the Freshman dormitories, form...
...news is new to the majority it only throws into sharper relief the veil of darkness which has clung like the Eleusinian mysteries over the social ideal so cannily supported by a foreign financial power. For with no uncertain show of favoritism, select groups of men have already been let in on the secret while the rest loiter about the doors of the exclusive House Plan Club and wait with a degree of hopefulness such as attended the coming of the Ford...
...Vagabond primly believes that there are at least a few souls who perhaps struck last Saturday at just the right angle to come bounding back into the field of academic charms. Towards those men, towards those men who find themselves filled with a tremendous enthusiasm for accomplishment during the next few weeks, the Vagabond respectfully offers his encouragement and suggests the following lectures...