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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monday, March 6 your article on the anti-syphilis campaign of the National Student Group stated that "there is too much venereal disease at Harvard...
...committee aims to educate college students to the realization that as future citizens and legislators, it is their responsibility to reduce the incidence of syphilis throughout the country. More specifically, the committee is attempting to have each student make a personal issue of this responsibility by writing to his representatives, both state and national, asking for medical legislation insuring compulsory pre-marital Wasserman Tests. This is our first goal. Ernest Sachs...
Walking encyclopedias who spout names and dates and other people's theories are plodding along today in the field of social sciences according to Professor Mather in a recent interview on concentration and distribution. Natural sciences not social sciences teach the student methods of thought and analysis and give him the tools to work out problems under his own steam. This is not a reflection upon the intrinsic merits of the social sciences as a field of concentration, but rather the attack points an accusing finger at the manner in which social sciences are being taught at Harvard...
Take as an example, economics, a particular branch of the social sciences which in many ways is very much like a natural science. If properly taught, it should supply the student with exactly what Professor Mather desired most, methods of analysis and the tools with which to solve problems by himself. If this were done the methodology would be much like that of mathematics, and even according to Dr. Mather's conception equally good training for the mind. But at the present time, except for a few isolated instructors, the Economics department fails to do this. Instead, the theories worked...
...urge the administration to take appropriate action against the responsible persons to insure that incidents like this will not recur. Richard Sullivan, Chairman, Lowell House Committee. Henry E. Russell, Member of Permanent Class Committee. Cleveland Amory, Ex-President, The CRIMSON. John S. Stillman, President, Harvard Student Union. James Tobin, First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa. Michael P. Grace, President. The Independents. Mason Fernald, Member of the Student Council. Edward C. K. Read, President, The Lampoon. Theodore Holisworth, Jr., Member of the Student Council. Edmond L. Cherbonnier, President, Phillips Brooks House...