Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compact New England academy in a quiet town to a cosmopolitan university within eight minutes of the center of an urban population of some two million souls. Harvard life has become diversified and shot through with every sort of human interest and divergent aim so that an individual student can see only a small portion of it all. He cannot see the woods for the trees. Life is very much rushed, very confusing, and it is very difficult to maintain the necessary cohesion...
...generation ago a student looked upon his room as his home. He often stayed in the same place three or four years. He took an interest in making that room comfortable and attractive. He hung the walls with signs whose origin he was not always willing to reveal. He covered his sofa with cushions which he maintained were made by lovely girls of his acquaintance...
...Today a student passes his first year in a Freshman dormitory, his last year in the Yard, and the two intervening years in one or two dormitories or houses where he can find a lodging to suit his taste and his purse. He takes no interest in his room because he feels that he will presently leave it. He is an irresponsible boarder as far as the dormitory is concerned. A certain portion of the students, perhaps ten or fifteen per cent., are members of small social clubs...
Yesterday at the Harvard Union, under the auspices of the governing board of that organization, a luncheon, attended by a number of graduates and undergraduates, was held in an effort to learn the student opinion on the question of the disposal of the Union under the House Plan before the report of the governing board on this matter is submitted to the Corporation. Judge F. P. Cabot '90, president of the governing board, described the main alternatives, assuming that under the House Plan Freshmen will live in the Yard, as follows: "Either an annex to the Union will be built...
...recommendation of Dean Max McConn of Lehigh University to partition the student bodies of the American universities into the two divisions of kindergartens and colleges, seems to be an efficient means of separating the fiddling grasshoppers from the industrious ants. The Lehigh Dean would give the gentlemen with the social and activity bent a large playground in the country where they get plenty of fresh air and be able to satisfy their pressing desires to attain extra-curricular prominence. The remaining portion of the collegiate population, intent upon scholastic honors, and which, according to Dean McConn, amounts to one half...