Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chosen Treasurer of Harvard. Until the appointment of Charles Francis Adams as Secretary of the Navy has been confirmed by Mr. Hoover, Mr. Adams will not resign his post as Treasurer. Until he has resigned, there can be no election of a successor, and no official statement on the question...
...essential then that undergraduates be given a hearing upon the question of the house-plan at Harvard. If we succeed in making ourselves articulate, there may be a little we can tell our pedagogues. Upon Harvard has devolved the privilege and responsibility of blazing a trail; and every university in America awaits reports with eagerness. For there are many intensely serious problems that present themselves. How, for instance, will the men be selected to occupy the various small social units? The purpose of the plan being avowedly a social improvement over the present conditions, will this end be better attained...
Clark, who is temporary secretary, announced that tentative arrangements had been made to debate Tufts on March 20, Dartmouth on March 27, and Lawrence High School on April 19. The season will come to a close with the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular debate on April 26. This debate, the question of which is to be decided later, is to be held on the Oxford Plan, each team having three speakers, with the decision being rendered by the audience. The negative teams will travel. Harvard's going to New Haven and Princeton's coming here...
...vital question raised in this article is whether the conventional course can be entirely discarded, and if possible whether such a step is after all advisable. The very nature of the proposition, as the writer clearly points out, implies that practically all instruction would be individual, since formal class meetings would be done away with. The difficulty of securing an adequate supply of instructors with the proper qualifications, something absolutely essential to the success of the system, is a serious obstacle to its materialization. Moreover, the expense herein entailed makes the possibility of its introduction on a large scale still...
...that many who favor the plan are influenced by lack of information as those who oppose it. He is certainly true when he says that the great majority of undergraduates know nothing about the plan. The CRIMSON referendum of two years ago, almost forgotten in the renewal of the question this year, definitely proves that even undergraduate ignorance and indifference refused to sanction the proposed plan and voted against its adoption. There is no reason to believe that there has been a volte-face. Furthermore, while it is not important to whom Mr. Williams refers as undergraduate leaders, the fact...