Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have discussed the House Plan with a number of undergraduates and find the opinion of those at all informed on the subject to be almost universally favorable. The rejection, by a college referendum, of the student council proposal of the House Plan two years ago would not have occurred, I feel sure, had the matter been sufficiently understood. The fact that the leaders in undergraduate life, then as now, favored such a proposal may surely be regarded as indicative of the support of the thinking student...
...name of Professor James Sturgis Pray was probably significant to a very small percentage of the student body of Harvard. Although for twenty years the Chairman of the School of Landscape Architecture, his work was not of a nature to make him widely known among the men outside his department and its real importance might easily be overlooked...
...purpose of the innovation is to permit students to familiarize themselves with works of art and to give them the opportunity to form their own judgments on the pieces in question. It should encourage the development of appreciation of art, for a student is more likely to take advantage of the opportunity to procure pictures to hang on his wall than to make regular excursions to Fogg. A better sense of value for pictures will also come from seeing them in one's own room in surroundings of comparative comfort rather than in the more severe background of a museum...
...matters related to the English Department alone there is likewise improvement, from the student's viewpoint. The successor of English D will no longer be a requirement for those falling in the successor of English A, and I will count, as it should, for a degree. But it is unfortunate that the authorities find it still necessary to continue the first half of English A under any name as a requirement. Only men coming to college with an extremely poor foundation can get a return out of the labors of the first part of the course at all proportionate...
Like many of the details of University life under the House Plan, the question of the disposal of the Union is still in a distinctly fluid state. The decision of the Governing Board on the matter is as yet unmade and its effort to sound student opinion found the usual almost fifty-fifty verdict of Harvard. The discussion has been based on the assumption that future Freshman classes will be housed in the Yard, a measure evidently favored though not yet announced, and it is logical to view the subject on that basis, for the housing of the Freshmen elsewhere...