Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although it was originally intended to withhold the names of the Harvard contestants until after the contest, which has been set for Monday, that plan has been reconsidered by those in charge of the competition...
...clock. The nature of the work will be explained and H. L. Harmon '28, present Business Manager, will give a short talk. The practical experience gained in a competition of this sort is of great value, both in college and in any field of business which the candidate may plan to enter...
What Agent Gilbert did definitely say, last week,, was that any contemplated revision of the Dawes Plan is still "in the phase of study," and that "no extraordinary or decisive results" are to be expected from his present visit to Rome. He went on to reaffirm his oft repeated statement that the revision of German liabilities at a definite and presumably somewhat reduced figure would not necessarily involve a similar readjustment of Allied indebtedness to the U. S. Said Agent Gilbert, in the manner of President Coolidge: "The reparation question is an entirely independent problem concerning only European nations...
...college's intellectual representatives might well stimulate the average undergraduate to scholastic endeavor, but it would scarcely serve as an added incentive to do well on the examination itself to any but the ten picked men if their names were announced before the event. Under the present Harvard plan, however, at least every student who stands high in the English Department will feel an added obligation on him to put forth his best endeavors. Since it is not known which students are to bear the weight of responsibility of Harvard victory or defeat all will to a certain extent feel...
...interests of general scholarship and loyalty are served, however, by the Harvard plan of withholding the names of the competitors until after the competition is over it might be inferred that they would be even further advanced by reserving the choice of competitors until the examination has been taken. In other words, the ten best papers in each college would be compared, rather than the papers of ten men who may not necessarily represent the best the college has to offer. The chance to turn scholastic attainment to account for the glory of the college would thus be determined...