Word: orals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offered by Mr. Richards Sears '91 for the best discussion on some political question, has this year been won by Hugh Langdon Elsbree '25 of Preston Hollow, New York. Paul Whitcomb Williams '25, of New Bedford, was awarded the second prize of $25. The question of the oral argument this year was "Are the Safeguards Surrounding the Amendment of the Federal Constitution Sufficient...
...Thus were established the elective system, with the consequent development of specialization; the enrichment of the curriculum, especially on what is known as the modern side; the substitution of written for oral examinations and of lectures for recitations. In the administration of discipline a greater degree of liberty and responsibility was granted to the student, and entrance to the college was guarded by higher standards of admission. Meanwhile Harvard grew from one thousand students to five thousand: twenty million dollars were added to its endowment; and a New England college became a cosmopolitan university...
...ARCHER, U. S. A.-R. H. Platt, Jr.-Doubleday ($2.50). The self-told tales of an old timer in the army, "translated into writing from the oral," are made into a book. It is the life story of a man who satisfied his wanderlust in the Army. He took a hand at San Juan, in Luzon, in the Boxer Rebellion, in an Honduran revolution, in the Great War, and tells about them all as his personal adventures. The book has no style except the lingo of the doughboy, but it makes a flowing tale that carries the reader off forgetfully...
...first prize of $100 and a second prize of $25 have been offered by Mr. Richard Sears, Harvard '91, for the best oral argument on the question, "Are the safeguards surrounding the amendment of the Constitution of the United States sufficient?" The contest is open to all undergraduates in Harvard College. Each competitor must submit to the Chairman of the Department of Government on or before March 15 a written brief in which he states his definition of the question and indicates the nature of the argument which he will make, together with a summary of the evidence which...
...Jews have raised a fund, organized a committee "to do all things, including written and oral propaganda, against segregation." Here is another program of propaganda against prejudice. News of the result, if there is any, will be eagerly awaited in cities of the U. S. where the same "problem" exists...