Word: sisson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elizabethan Poetry", Professor Sisson, Sever...
...Elizabethan Poetry", Professor Sisson, Sever...
Professor C. J. Sisson, writing on the House plan in this morning's CRIMSON, Has erred twice therein on the side of optimism. In his expectation that students will use tier better opportunity to learn from students he is running headon into a train of Harvard thought that has for the past two years been gathering greater speed in the other direction. Students at Harvard today believe, in general, that there are few time investments that pay such short interest as Conversation and Contacts. The "bull session" is dead, not of the exactness of its titling, but of a realization...
...will this mean a Harvard type, for individuality is fostered, strengthened, and tested by the collegiate system, as our English universities have proven by long experience", adds Professor Sisson. But, as Professor, Richardson says in "Study of the Liberal College" (1924): "Of course there are great differences between the various colleges . . . Some of them, such as Balliol and New College, have set themselves toward a marked degree of scholastic excellence . . . It is very difficult for a college to change its status. In the first place it has acquired a constituency of a fairly definite type . . ." The Harvard plan, painstakingly whitewashed...
...Beowulf and the Northern Epic," Professor Sisson, Sever...