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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that no large group of people are responsible for the funds used in the realization of the House Plan may be thought in a sense to remove all technical necessity for the detailed promulgation of the plans for the individual units. But after all, Harvard men both present and prespective have a desire to know how the Harvard of the future is going to look and to be allowed a chance to comment upon it before all possibility of revision is closed. While satisfaction for this desire may not, in a legal sense, be demanded as right, a larger...
...ceremonies were conducted in the court room of the new Langdell Hall. President Lowell opened the exercises with a brief welcome, and after pointing out the need for trained lawyers in our present day civilization, called on Roscoe Pound Dean of the Law School and a member of President Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission...
...account of the linemen of the present Harvard squad would be complete without at least some mention of these same line coaches. They are Hubbard, the famous Harvard guard of several years back, and Dunne, former University of Michigan star. The wonderful job they did in putting together out of seemingly inexperienced material a line which impressed all of its opponents as being more powerful for sheer power that is than almost any other forward wall in the country cannot go by unmentioned. This year, their second together, should find their coaching system at its peak. With excellent material...
...subjects connected with the present situation in universities and colleges The New Republic receives frequent communications--the low salaries of professors and the rising fees for tuition. It is not often that the same correspondent protests against both evils, at any rate in the same letter. The connection between them is too obvious--one is an attempt to remedy the other. It is true that the student's tuition fee seems to have increased more rapidly than the wage of his instructor. A part of the former is necessarily absorbed by the heightened cost of maintenance of a modern educational...
...other hand any steady progression in this policy from year to year might lead to an unfortunate condition which exists at present in many colleges which gives the student who slumps once no chance to try again. Even the most infallible judge in a dean's office must realize that there are times when mistakes in judgment are impossible to avoid, and even when there is no mistake made in closing a student's connection with a college the whole future life of a person may be completely altered by such action. Such a realization has always been shown...