Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There seems to be no adequate reason why Harvard undergraduates or the students of any other college or university should be cooped up in designated "halls" where they would be expected to pass most of their time. This proposed artificial method, alleged by its sponsors to be educationally advantageous, certainly isn't conducive to individualism...
Hubbard, who is also being considered for this post, is expected to take the place next fall of R. J. Dunne,, head line coach during the first three years of the Horween regime. Dunne has not as yet communicated his plans to the Harvard authorities, but there is reason to believe that he has accepted an offer of Wisconsin University to undertake coaching duties there...
...Williams' statement that ignorance causes the opposition to the House plan may be qualified. It must be pointed out that a lack of complete understanding of a thing is a very good reason for opposing it. If Mr. Williams is true, it is not the fault of those who are ignorant, but of those who refuse to alleviate this ignorance, that the House plan, shrouded in suspicious darkness, has met with more opposition than the interview would lead one to believe. It was a serious mistake to acquaint undergraduates and graduates with such a momentous innovation by means of sensational...
...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 that little but opposition to the plan has been heard lately seems to have escaped his notice. The advisability of the House plan has been debated...
...week, Secretary of Commerce Whiting issued a distinctly bullish statement. Said he: "Administration policies have made for a substantial and increasing stability in business for several years. ... If these conservative, constructive policies of the government and of business are maintained, then there would seem to be no reason why the present economic situation should not continue...