Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upperclassmen as well as Freshmen the fifth issue of the Crimson's Confidential Guide to all courses open to first year men and all fields of concentration should be more useful than ever. Greater care has been taken with the opinions of concentrators and of the Class of 1941 on the teaching of courses and the organization of the twenty-two fields. Since the Guide is designed to serve the College, it is written entirely from the student point of view. Its editors nourish two hopes for the 1938 Guide, that the information presented will interest the brilliant student...
...School will open for its first regular session this fall, following over a year of exploratory sessions in which the faculty and invited government officials collaborated in shaping a new type of curriculum for study and research on basic governmental problems. Until the start of the second term this years, the School will continue to be housed in Hunt Hall in the Yard...
...little nervous, of course. This is like another world for me. I have come with little--an open mind, curiosity, hopes...
...idea of Cambridge which you have formed perhaps before you have seen it. Is it narrow and cynical, or broad and naive? Has it been illuminated or spoiled for you by parental words? Has it been crowned with a halo by your school friends? Whatever the answer, be open-minded when you reach Cambridge--and that means be suspicious of everyone and everything until you are sure in your own maturing mind who and what is good or bad. If you come with an open mind, you will accept with equanimity the eccentricities of the Harvard community. You will...
Likewise, in considering courses, be open-minded. At Harvard you will find as little academic restriction as anywhere in the world of colleges Remember that as Freshmen you have your main chance to explore the curriculum and find what in it appeals most. Let your first year be one great survey course, in which you taste but not swallow. Later will come the specialization that enables you, in the Eliot tradition, to do one thing well. And by all means realize that academic life does not require twelve hours each day or that nothing but study is proper. Look around...