Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good fortune has been so disorganized and well nigh chaotic that it might almost be called natural. Or, perhaps, Harvard has not so much ruled out the yeast as to remove all those leavening distractions which to some degree save the student from the set and sterile point of view of its academic side, its ever-encroaching zeal for "scholarship", and the bugbear of the graduate schools. Our critics are wont to accuse us of being unbalanced if not actually drunk, however...
...point is, that if we can keep our Houses from being hot-houses, they may give us not just collegettes, but more college. Old Jawn may have less reason to feel indifferent, it is true, and may charm the world with fewer dilettantes. But we might have more good football. We might even play Princeton again, who knows? But we must eat out. That is some of the time. John Bliss...
...English system, in being transplanted, necessarily has been changed in many ways, with the especial purpose of adapting it to the American point of view. It would seem wise to start with as clear a slate as possible with no definite committments to certain methods merely because they have been successful in another country. It has become fairly obvious by this time, that several of the tutors in Lowell House, enthusiastic over the English system because it seemed to fit their personal needs, are unduly eager to start this House off with a strong anglophile bias...
Some twenty-five men have put in applications stating no definite choice so that even more latitude is allowed the Masters in making their selections. The authorities have, however, emphasized the point that no handicap will attach to applications received up to 10 o'clock Sunday night...
...well to point out that a College official such as the House Master not only identifies himself more closely with the properly nonpartisan attitude of the institution which he represents than does a professor but also comes into a new relationship with the undergraduate. The fact that many Harvard men are thoroughly out of sympathy with the aims and methods of the Watch and Ward Society makes it doubly desirable that University officials keep themselves from mixing in the many controversial questions with which the Society busies itself...