Word: student
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under an arrangement already mapped out by Harvard's architects, first units of the 'house", scheme of student grouping will be located in the quarters built to accommodate freshmen. Other units of the Harvard plant will be constructed in the same section, now largely given over to tenements and factories...
...annual New York Times Current Events Contest will be held on Friday, February 15, at an hour and place to be arranged. It is open to any undergraduate student of Harvard University, the winner to receive a medal and a cash prize of $250. The paper obtaining the highest rank will be submitted in an intercollegiate contest of 20 colleges to compete for an additional prize...
...coaches are to give the instruction does not mean that only Harvard theory and practice are to be taught, for the courses will be tempered by the assistance of men from other universities. Such a plan provides for tuition that is both competent and well-rounded, and presumably the student-coaches will be allowed to choose the style of play most popular in their particular locality...
...having achieved which the young man concentrates upon more prominent acquaintances and the search for a rich wife. Princeton Mr. Pringle finds more democratic than Yale, but also infested with young men "on the make," and Harvard is better in that "charm" may be a substitute for success in student activities...
...quizzical and suspicious glances cast in the direction of abnormal psychology is not to be wondered at. An American university is a coolbed of conservatism. It is not the breeding-ground for cultural and political revolutions as it is in Europe. Our professors are by nature prudent, our students docile. This pleases American parents who, when they entrust their progeny to others demand intellectual safety first and last. At Harvard the last symptom of vigorous eruptive life ceased with the death of the Medfacs. In such an atmosphere any new venture must steel itself to criticism. If a Radcliffe student...