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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading editorial "A Fine Human Document" quotes Mr. Coolidge as saying to him: "Whenever a problem comes before me the first thing I say to myself is, 'Isn't there someone who can do that as well as I can?' and you would be surprised how often I find someone else can do it better. That saves me for the problems which only I can decide." F. L. LANE
...delay, so often dependent on the convenience of the traditional University architects, Coolidge, Abbott, Shepley, and Bullfinch, the plans for the two new Houses will not be completed until summer. This extra time will undoubtedly make such an alteration in the plans for the Houses possible if it is found that the squash courts can not be kept in the new gymnasium. This change would even have many obvious advantages, which would be especially great if the courts were sufficiently numerous to accommodate a large percentage of the residents of these Houses...
...adverse criticisms: 1. that the material is placed before the student in a form at once fragmentary and incoherent. 2. that the books are necessarily choked with irrelevant matter which overwhelms the learner and, so far from stimulating his mental processes, deadens them. 3. that the knowledge imparted is often startling in its superficiality and precarious by reason of its want of foundation...
...Only too often does the Vagabond find it difficult to augment his hasty morning perusal of the daily newspapers with lectures on subjects which attempt at a comprehensive view of some development of contemporary history. Professor Karpovich's lecture on "Bolshevism" at 10 o'clock this morning in Sever 20 offers one of the few opportunities of this kind which occur during the year...
This first major outbreak of the Forum since its divorce from the Baptist Social Union was very self-conscious over the dangers of being too serious about its program of reform. "We are often too serious" said the editor of the Nation, a journal which has claimed to have a greater popularity among Harvard undergraduates than any other weekly--excepting The Saturday Evening Post. So the Undesirables who invaded the realm of the Puritans roared in revels of laughter as they received the import of Jack and Jill's climb up the ancient hill. It was an important occasion...