Word: severities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only after lengthy deliberation could the Administration have removed the history-covered tables in Sever Hall. Yet, in making this considered move, no one suggested that the tradition of which the tables were a part needed alteration. Like the old, the new arrangement of individual desk-chairs puts a premium on the lecture system in small class rooms. Teacher remains on an enlarged platform with students in rows before...
...always been excused as the only way of bringing the professor in contact with a large number of students. No one could possibly defend it as the best educational method for groups small enough to be organized as conferences. Such groups, particularly in foreign literature, predominate in Sever. Both by custom and by form however, they are receiving the same treatment as classes...
...writing about the Sever chairs. This letter is the delayed expression of first growing doubt, then smouldering disgust and alarm, not only at the new chairs themselves but at the sheepish, unthinking acquiescence with which we accept them. A prophetic eye would discern in the chairs a sign of a new attitude toward education, and perhaps also in their slow but sure advance, Hitler-fashion, from classroom to classroom, a symbol of the gradual and easy deception and deadening of popular reaction...
...Ricketts Summer, author of "Pinky," will address a State Extension Course writing class in Sever Hall at 7:15 p.m. tonight...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer said goodbye to the Yard yesterday, completing its Harvard shooting for "Mystery Street" with scenes near Harvard and Sever Halls...