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Returning for the last, long mile, students will be welcomed with the familiar greeting: "All undergraduates not on the Dean's list must attend their first class today." No doubt that reminder brought back many last night who would have preferred another evening at home, or could have found profit...
The problem, then, is not a matter of amending the law, which is necessary, but rather of making the punishment fit the crime. Probation in general is naturally intended as a warning, a preventive for the man who is threatened with the malady of collegiate dropsy. But in this case...
But monitors are human, and they do not find it easy to become mechanical parts of a system. They have sleepy friends, lazy friends, probation friends and, at times, friends who will relieve them of their work. It is not very pleasant to be continually on guard to see that...
Even more remarkable as showing that this satisfactory standing is not wholly caused by the fear of ineligibility through probation, are the percentages of these men who achieved standings which place them in the first three groups. There again the parallel holds with once more a slight advantage on behalf...
Harvard, to use a shop-worn phrase, is not a school for irresponsible boys, but a University. Correction and discipline there must be; but at the same time there should also be an understanding and appreciation of undergraduate difficulties, especially those of the men to whom the University's complex...