Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement was made by President Lowell before the alumni on Graduates' Day that the success of a university should be measured by the way its undergraduates think. He pointed to the recent report of the Student Council Committee on Education as just such a standard, and one by which he was willing that his administration should be judged. A similar feather in his hat, of smaller significance, perhaps, and a plume of different hue, is the Gadfly which appears this morning. For not only is it a careful and diligent attempt to cope with problems of imminent import...
...magazine begins with "A Preliminary Report by the Liberal Club Committee on University Policy" Here is stated the thesis the elaboration of which completes the issue. After a careful and complete statement of the new admission ruling, expressed in question and answer form the writers conclude that the new plan is in direct opposition to the democratic traditions for which Harvard has always stood...
...striking example is the recent report on education by the Student Council Committee. These young men show a surprising grasp of the fundamental problems of education, as well as the particular problems of Harvard. Undoubtedly Oxford undergraduates could, produce an equally constructive criticism of their university, but they never have and would not be listened to if they did. Undergraduates over there accept the "system" without question, although not their teachers' pet ideas...
There is one section in the Student Council report, however, with which I find myself in profound disagreement: the section on subdivision into colleges. This proposal appears to me to be based upon two fallacies: (1) that a college of the English type can be created by installing a dining room and common-room in a group of dormitories; (2) that such colleges would be desirable at Harvard if attainable...
...present editorial board of the CRIMSON may be so unanimous in its approval of the proposed division into colleges that it is unwilling to admit to its news and editorial columns even the mildest criticism of that phase of the Student Report, even the vaguest suggestion that the whole of our student body and the whole of intelligent out side opinion does not partake equally of the CRIMSON's enthusiasm for this new proposal. But at least the "Communications" column should be open to expressions of the opposite point of view...