Word: projects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's $11,000,000 experiment in small-unit education, to be inaugurated next fall with 522 students in the new Dunster and Lowell houses, is holding the attention of those who think about educational progress. The New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor have already viewed the project favorably: they see desirability in splitting the huge masses of students at our great universities into more wiedly groups, at the same time retaining the skilled instruction and superior facilities of a large institution...
...this sort should, after all, be made by those distinctly in favor of common student dining halls and not imposed from without upon men who through lack of sympathy with the idea are forced to sacrifice personal inclinations or actual money in order to assure the success of a project which they do not fully favor...
...success of this project depends on the machinery which is evolved to run it, If the instructor is adequate and the course is sufficiently non-professional to permit undergraduates with serious dramatic intentions to participate, then it certainly justifies its existence. One of the chief difficulties with the Forty Seven Workshop was that it absorbed too much of the time of those engaged in working for it so that it finally took on the appearance of a professional school in an undergraduate institution. The new school plans to confine itself chiefly to graduates who would have more time...
...with the university it is made up of a majority of Harvard men, and is a Harvard movement in spirit if not in fact. The final hope is for incorporation with the University as a graduate school, a fact which certainly should be considered when passing judgment on this project. The fortunate part of this revival is that it has happened while there is yet time to preserve the tradition of Harvard influence in the American theater...
Savage enemies have tarred Anido with a vile nickname, "The Epileptic Pig," but he is no porkier than Primo and considerably less epileptic than several members of the Royal House. Just now he is behind a sensible project to alter the Constitution so that, in case of need, one of King Alfonso's healthy daughters can inherit the Crown. As everyone knows Crown Prince Alfonso is a haemophile,? Prince Jaime deaf and almost dumb, Princes Juan and Gonzalo "mentally under-developed...