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Henry W. Holmes, dean of the Graduate School of Education, has correctly surmised that "the CRIMSON, in its editorials of the last few days, has taken a distinctly antagonistic attitude toward the new plan of 'Houses' at Harvard." Among the many benefits that Mr. Holmes himself sees in the new plan, several, at least, find small foundation in the teachings of past and present Harvard experience...
Professor Morison points to the disciplinary duties of the small college within Oxford as its most prominent function. Discipline is a word uncongenial to Harvard ears; surely no plan of subdivision here whatever might be its direction could be intended toward the extension of discipline. If discipline be taken to mean guidance as well as coercion, however, this assumption becomes much less sure. The new Harvard plan of House residence with its provision for constant and close contact between tutor and student can scarcely fall to produce the type of discipline which Professor Morison describes as characteristic of Oxford...
...only in contact between tutor and student but also between student and student does the House plan promise to lead away from the present condition of complete self-determination toward the Oxford idea of gentle guidance. The student will be led, through the very structure of the college, into contacts which the college deems good for him, instead of being allowed complete freedom to establish or repudiate those contacts in accordance with his own desires...
...choice between the two plans is largely a matter of personal preference. Many parents would undoubtedly prefer to send their sons to an institution where gentle guidance of the proper kind is provided for them. There are, indeed, already many colleges designed to suit this taste. Harvard almost alone has placed its full reliance on the undirected initiative and judgment of the individual student. Because it believes that therein has lain Harvard's unique glory, the CRIMSON joins Professor Morison in preferring the present system of robust neglect to any alternative plan of gentle guidance...
...method of selecting men is the focal point for discussion of the House plan. No more specific announcement of the University's policy on this point has been announced than that "selection of the members of the three upper classes who will occupy the first dormitory unit will be made by the University authorities, and will be of necessity more or less arbitrary." The report of the Student Council's committee will be closely watched for recommendations on this problem. From the plan's present artificial cross-sectioning Harvard can afford to sacrifice a good deal of the appearance...