Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...informal, if often they take on the questionnaire aspect of the minor parlor sports, one can only conclude that they represent the spirit and the intent of the book. Perhaps when the garish and unsubstantial covers have worn a little, and when references to 1933 appear not quite so obvious and so dignified as at present, the editors may feel some compunction that much effort and fine printing have been spent on a work largely devoted to temporary interest...
...first and most obvious economy that can be made is in the amount and type of coaching. There is no need, for example of six coaches for the varsity football team or of three for the swimmers. The suggestion for supplanting some of the paid coaches by amateurs should be seriously taken up. There is no reason why teams should be sent on lengthy trips outside New England. There is no reason why a kindly athletic association should buy every piece of clothing and equipment for members of certain teams while others like the tennis players furnish their own. There...
Another, and more general problem, is the weighting which tutorial work should have in the scholarship grants. The tutorial reports now submitted are largely blanket recommendations, with an occasional blanket vote. Unless the tutorial work were rigidly graded, and this is for obvious reasons undesirable, the tutor is unwilling to assume the responsibility of affecting any man's chance to return to college by a comparative judgment, even if he were prepared to make one. The CRIMSON is inclined to the belief that this weighting cannot come to be important until the tutorial system is allowed to assume its destined...
...Lowell became heir in 1909; from the first he announced his intention to prune the excesses of the elective system, to set up requirements of concentration and distribution which should be correlated by tutors, and capped by a general examination. The solution was the British one; soon it became obvious that the college must be broken up into smaller and more manageable units, that the internal structure of Harvard College should duplicate that of the bundle universities of England. Yale, more explicit, called these units colleges; Harvard was content to call them Houses. Having begun the work of education along...
...tenacious order, by an unrepentant and deep rooted course system. And yet, even under these conditions, it has made large advances toward the ideal. That it has done so is a fact that points unequivocally to the conclusion that ought to have been, if indeed it was not, obvious from the beginning. The tutorial system must, if Harvard is to foster any real intellectual interest, become predominant. The course system must become subsidiary, it must become simply the undergraduate's medium of contact with the professor whose knowledge and personality command more of a following than can be adequately handled...