Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five interviews called for will come, the statement says, one in September, a second after two or three weeks, a third after the November grades are out, a fourth in December for discussion of second-half year courses, and a fifth after mid-years "with specific reference to plans about concentration, distribution, and Houses...
Much maligned of late has been the University's policy on admissions, and President Conant's simple statement that "college would be a dreary place if it were composed of only one type of individual" has been ignored for quotations easier to distort. In brief the policy boils down to a sliding scale of personality and brains, with more being demanded of the one as the quality of the other declines. Thus the genius can come to Harvard however repulsive he is, the moron only when his charm is truly dazzling. A more democratic policy would be difficult to find...
...these two ideas, the undergraduate can ask pertinently if Harvard's theory fits that goal. And specifically he should ask whether the admissions, advisory, and tutorial systems, which are all related by a thread of continuity, carry out the theory. Perhaps the answers to these questions lie in the statement in President Conant's report for 1937 that "the immediate task before us is the intensification of our effort...
...read Pundit Lippmann's column in full. He too made the statement, which he signally failed to support with any evidence, that this country's people have changed in their attitude toward war during recent months. Now you say the same thing; or at least I so interpret your rather awkward sentence; though you do not say whose attitude has been changed, or how many attitudes...
...Names. "There is placed on all of us the duty of self-restraint. . . . That is the discipline of a democracy. Every patriotic citizen must say to himself or herself that immoderate statement, appeals to prejudice, the creation of unkindness, are offenses . . . against the whole population of the United States...