Word: projection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...News in its 1927 Board platform advocated "Support to the Harvard CRIMSON project for a reduction of the public's virtual control of college football. We favor the plan in principle, but we do not believe the program advocated by this paper is either practicable or desirable. The fact that football has become so immense and has gained such a following should be proof against the drastic punishment prescribed. In its present condition it is somewhat of a mountain, but we would not go to the other extreme and make it puny...
...world from the point of view of his own narrow social and economic corner of it. He lacks the knack of forgetting the prejudices of his own trade, his own class, and his own particular country; he is incapable of seeing things whole. The historian who has undertaken to project his imagination into other times, to comprehend other customs and motives, is the more likely to achieve a similar vantage point in surveying the modern world. It is only the educated man who can cock an historical eye at his own times and the man who can do this...
This democratic project sponsored by undergraduates is not as new as it might appear. President Lowell and many graduates have contemplated it for many years. An equally large group of Yale graduates have often suggested that we adopt the English system. Here, however, with a less diversified student body, and division into College. Common Freshman Year Sheffild Scientific School, and with our daily chapel and our prospering Yale Dining Hall, with an open-house fraternity system, et al, we have not yet reached the state turn here eyes eastward. Yale News, April...
Though the English universities afford a fruitful example, the intention is not to imitate them, being rather to develop more fully our own undergraduate life. The project could be equally well described as a combination of the virtues of the American small college and the American university. It is democratic in that it gives every young man his chance in that it gives full scope to men of marked abilities, it is something which all must desire democracy to be. Though the present movement at Harvard is sponsored by undergraduates, it has long been contemplated by a group of graduates...
Many who have read the extracts from the report of the Student Council Committee of Education, published in yesterday's CRIMSON, have considered Section III, concerning Subdivision into Colleges, an undergraduate attempt to rival Plato. Remembering that the "house divided" is supposed to fall, they see in this project of the Committee an excellent means of destroying Harvard. Yet upon further consideration, one can more clearly understand just what the plan implies and why it is both necessary and practical...