Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gardner Lothrop Lewis, Jr., '30 was appointed chairman of the Senior Dormitory Committee by the Student Council at a meeting held last night. Lewis will be in charge of the assignment of rooms in the Yard for next year to members of the present Junior class. The other member of the Committee are not yet been chosen but will be announced by Lewis in the near future. The method of room allotment for next year's Seniors will not be determined until the new Committee has been formed and held its first meeting...
...present, few and far between are the secondary schools in the Middle West that have sent a graduate to an Eastern university, and the loss is to both in the nature of things, only students with an unusual amount of initiative and intellectual curiosity ever break the chain that leads them either directly into a job or to the ministrations of a local academy of higher learning. Any measures towards removing the handicaps in the path of this type of candidate will both help to remove an unfair disadvantage and secure for the college desirable members...
...weekly it is necessary to resort to force to decide this matter. The theory that the victorious institution deserves the goal posts of the opposition has the apparent support of a physically aggressive minority, but traditional precedent and established property rights do not support this view. Only within the present decade has vandalism followed victory. Even in the days of mass plays and bloody flying wedges, the material constituents of the game were left unscathed...
...donor was about to make possible "a radical experiment in undergraduate life" by the establishment of an inner college. The purpose of this innovation, as a residential unit, is to foster "within its walls those features of social and academic life which are left largely to chance in the present existence of upperclassmen at Harvard...
...this experiment calmly, it can be seen that its radicalism is not as extreme as the first reports seemed to signify; and perhaps its lack of sheer radicalism will prove to be the most valuable element in giving it impetus and in sustaining it until its adaption to the present educational conditions has been completed. The trend has been unmistakably in the direction of splitting large educational bodies into smaller, more homogeneous groups; but the academic world is at present extremely leery, and rightfully so, of any attempt to graft the English system in force at Oxford and Cambridge...