Word: student
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front line trench where knowledge is being advanced, he will have a new and exciting experience. Unless he is a recluse this new experience will be passed on to a circle of friends. Even in the first year of college the intellectual interests of a group of students are most diverse, and our method of education continues to intensify this diversification. The specialization of each individual does not necessarily sabotage the ideal of a liberal arts college. If the proper conditions exist for student life, the interplay of divergent viewpoints makes for the most liberal and stimulating atmosphere possible...
...specialist becomes curious about a subject lying beyond his limited horizon and takes a course in it of his own free will, that is another story; or if he argues about it with a fellow student and then starts to read on his own account, that is best of all. Courses for the unwilling are necessarily perfunctory, and a single course in an unrelated subject often fails to be assimilated. If we could agree on what should constitute a liberal education for every stu- dent who was graduated from Harvard and if we could test...
...first student organizations the incoming freshman notices is the Student Council, for at Registration the Council has the table nearest the door in Memorial Hall, where it collects the financial pledges from students which support its activities for the year...
Harvard's Student Council was founded in 1908 "to cooperate thoroughly with the Faculty in raising the general intellectual standard, to bring the governing bodies of the University expressions of undergraduate opinion, and to cooperate with the Athletic Committee...
Representing the student body in the College government is its business, and a majority of its seventeen members (six from the Junior and eleven from the Senior class) are elected by their classmates. The rest are appointed by the elected men to ensure that all groups are represented...