Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council has no direct authority over the student body as a whole; self-government of this sort does not exist at Harvard. But it does administer and support financially several functions and activities of classes and organizations...
...able to distinguish between knowledge and superficial information. In four short years no one can take enough courses to begin to satisfy a really alive and active intellectual curiosity. One of the many things we fail to accomplish in our colleges today is to convince our students that self-education is really possible and can be profitably pursued through life
...Governor Dudley signed a charter which gave to the "President & Fellowes" of Harvard College, a self-perpetuating body known collectively as The Corporation, the power "to make from tyme to tyme such orders & Bylawes for the better ordering & carying on the works of the College as they shall thinck fitt...
...traditions. He is constantly told by his elders and those who should know better that in going to college he is entering Life, that he is On His Own and facing Responsibility. Thus inhibited by good advice he is apt to fear that any independent activity or self-expression will be regarded as a breach of good taste or even of discipline...
...self-appointed censor of local manners and morals was also a leader in the Council's attempt last fall to make Harvard a separate city...