Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Introduced four years ago as a new step in undergraduate journalism, "The Student Vagabond" has become a regular daily feature of the CRIMSON. Since its original inception the idea of Vagabonding courses has been followed not only in Harvard, but in numerous other universities where students wished to attend an occasional lecture in a course in which they were not enrolled...
...Glee Club is more willing in the future to recognize this taste among graduates, a taste that also exists among other undergraduates, it is indeed doomed to joint programs and dwindling, however sophisticated, audiences. The educational program that Dr. Davison has so nobly pushed ahead is indeed a commendable step, but if the public is still to be drawn in anticipation of collegiate glee, a compromise must be forthcoming...
Editorial comment is universal in decrying any interested attempt to block a parley which seemed to promise a long step on the road to universal peace. It is hard to see how any intelligent opinion can fail to repudiate such small minded paltering with matters so vital to humanity as a whole, but it is still too early to make specific charges. In a social system which depends so entirely upon the integrity of big corporations, even the most radical can derive but a sad sort of pleasure in a gleeful "I told you so" when big business is cast...
...readmitted Freshmen, as in previous years, lowered the average of the entire class, as 46.3 per cent either had their connection severed or encountered some other unsatisfactory outcome. This is the poorest showing for the readmitted Freshmen since 1921-22. This result seems to justify the Administrative Board's step in adopting a stricter policy concerning readmission, which it was forced to put into effect this September...
Professor Holcombe's attitude in completely revising Government 1, to answer constantly growing criticism of what was almost generally conceded to be the classic example of the preparatory school course in college, is a step so obviously in the right direction that it deserves more than passing mention from those vitally interested in Harvard's progressive policy. The main point in his new program, as any one can deduce from a careful reading of the Confidential Guide to Government 1, included in today's issue of the CRIMSON is not chiefly a change in the periods between quizzes...