Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One of the characteristic features of an American university is the wide range of instruction offered to undergraduates. Almost all academic disciplines are available to the second-year man, at least, and each subject may be pursued through advanced courses almost to the frontiers of knowledge. In Harvard the same...
The Council has no direct authority over the student body as a whole; self-government of this sort does not exist at Harvard. But it does administer and support financially several functions and activities of classes and organizations.
Describing the non-political nature of the Student Council, a past Council President said that "the only way to be a big man on the Harvard scene is to be over seven feet tall." It makes no attempt to control undergraduate opinion, he said, because, in trying to do so...
Other Council reports have urged, and succeeded in making, improvements in the troublesome matter of insufficient room for all students in the Houses, investigated the dismissal of popular teachers, exposed tutoring school evils, and so on over all the issues of past years
Besides these, ninety-five first-year men will receive "Freshman Scholarships" from money appropriated for that purpose. Forty-seven are the recipients of Harvard Club awards from Clubs all over the country.