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While, of course, there is no immediate solution that will completely satisfy both the student and the institution, at least two steps could be taken to case the problem...
...beauty, seeker of truth and prophet of heroic grandeurs?" To know whether or not Harvard trains "whole men" it is necessary to know what such men are and it will be difficult to arrive at any definition which will not either outrage the convictions of a segment of the student body or else be so abstract as to be meaningless. Furthermore, it may be even harder to draw the line between the effects attributable to a Harvard education and the mere continuation of personality traits which have formed in a person before college. When we look at a Harvard graduate...
...only try to channel the into pursuits that will benefit them while they are here and after they graduate; but nothing can alter the fact that Harvard has little or nothing to do with the formation of character which so greatly colors the life of any student before he comes to Cambridge. This means that no person or persons can accurately gauge the effect of four years at Harvard upon the development of the "whole man," because under the tradition of freedom of which this college is justly proud, those four years can be anything from an orgy of bridge...
...activities; the Faculty of Arts and Science could then act on the Board's recommendations. The present rules were adopted before the war and certainly need some overhauling by now. Since the Administrators give some weight to petitions by undergraduate groups, it is up to such groups--like the Student Council--to give all the help they...
Until the College is able to afford a student activities center or a Union with proper entertainment facilities, or until the public and the alumni change their minds about what is moral--an unlikely event--no one will be fully satisfied. The activities center is the long run answer. Until Harvard builds one, present rules must be adjusted...