Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge police force is to be submitted to such nervous strains as this, it is certainly time that something is done about the effect of criminal motion pictures on juveniles. If the screen influences little Cambridge schoolgirls to threaten the city's nicest policeman, it might cause impressionable little boys to set up a Cambridge underworld and "burn down" traffic officers in Harvard Square right before Harvard undergraduates...
...which his tutees are living, and should strive to make these quarters as attractive as possible. It is in the tutor's rooms, and not in the common rooms, that Peterkin thinks the system will best be advanced. Certain hours each week should be given each student wherein he might talk 'shop' or hold the conference which now makes up the sole relation between tutor and student. In addi- tion to this, however, the tutor should maintain a sort of open house, on certain evenings at which times a student would always feel at liberty to visit. During his residence...
...Houses should not be restricted to one group, or to one field of concentration," Peterkin said. "Rather they should be, as the majority of those favoring the House Plan believe, a cross section of all types of student and fields of education. Although some House might get the reputation of being a History House by virtue of some prominent History tutor's residing there, the Houses on the whole should, and will without a doubt be made up on a diversified basis. All classes of students, all fields of study, will be united in one House...
...both advantages and disadvantages. While a tutor's wife could aid him in creating an hospitable atmosphere in his apartments, the presence of women and children about a student building, such as the House, would not be wholly desirable. Care in selecting the location of the married tutors' apartments might do much to eliminate any disadvantage on that score. Peterkin believes that the unmarried men should be scattered throughout the Houses, keeping near enough to their tutees to be of educational and social benefit...
...find favor among a few vociferous Juniors. Whether a strong feeling for this idea really pervades the whole class is another question. A 1930 affair in the midst of Boston's night clubs would have little Harvard atmosphere, and even if the University authorities permitted it, a Boston dance might be even less successful than the white elephant in Memorial Hall...