Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite little plan of ours off our chest. Statesmen and diplomats and "the folks who are in the know" would have to put on boxing gloves and fight it out in the front line. If they got a bit hurt --well, that's really the most important part of our plan. Only the men over 45 (and the women who admitted it) and our special regiment made up of "trash" would be allowed anywhere near the battlefield. The rest of the army, which would be mostly college boys, could just sit in the background and think about next weekend...
...their statements and abortive attempts to end tutoring could go on forever without accomplishing any actual gain. Some more positive action seems necessary if the importance of tutoring in the lives of undergraduates is to be seriously diminished. Perhaps the best solution would be direct action on the part of the University...
...part about the whole situation is that if more men had dates for the game, the location of the average pair of pasteboards for you and your date would be much better, because the fewer the number of singles applied for, the better the doubles will be. The H.A.A. always forms a cheering section in the center part of the stands, consisting of all the 3,000-odd contribution book holders who want but one ticket for the game...
...about time, however, to take stock of how the battle can end. Utterly irreconcilable views and claims have been advanced, ranging all the way from a demand by some members of the Faculty that all ten assistant professors be reinstated, to a refusal on the part of some Administration officials to admit that there is anything wrong at all. There will obviously have to be a compromise if the Faculty and the Administration are to live at peace in the future...
This is only part of the treaty which could end the present battle, for there is a vital procedural question involved. It is the matter of democracy in the conduct of Harvard's affairs, and it can be appreciated only by surveying fully a background which includes the formal democracy of President Eliot and the benevolent dictatorship of President Lowell. Now the Faculty, stung by the Administration's hasty and somewhat arbitrary action in the acceptance of the Committee of Eight's report, is once more demanding a greater voice in management. Although the final result may come only...