Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past has been to return happily married to one no more, certainly--of the missionary nurses. Since the career of an undergraduate at Yale automatically ends at the altar rail, this place of advice may prove like the boomerang which circles back to decapitate its thrower. If the Yale student returns unmarried, the chances are he will be so much in love that, unable to eat, sleep, or drink, he will be able to do nothing but wander aimlessly around the quadrangle gazing at the moon and composing sentimental poetry to the object of his love. After...
...educational possibilities of the movies are enormous," he said. "Movies are exceedingly practicable in schools and colleges, for they furnish a means of instruction which does not the the student. The modern era is one of rapidity, and the cinema supplies instruction which conforms to the spirit of the times. Movies will be supplemented by books; books will be illustrated by movies...
...boiling series of-so-called investigations of representative American college existence, Mr. Kenneth L. Roberts '07, burlesque artist extraordinary, has succeeded in arousing Harvard--or at least the editors of the Harvard Crimson--to hot indignation and to a vigorous, if not too clever, denial of his interpretation of student life at Cambridge. This, we imagine, is just what Mr. Roberts wanted. It would even seem to strengthen a few of the points at which he has been at such pains to whale away with his heavy bludgeon of journalistic humor...
...Junior divisional examination, then, sets up a false distinction for the specialist by eliminating the honors degree for the student with a broad interest in his field. More than this, it offers a convenient relief from extended general work to many who accept readily the label of "candidate for honors". What may seem, from the figures it can show, to be emancipation of the honors degrees, is really a narrowing device, which permits the passage of numbers that only cheapen the distinction degree. As a stricture on the fair application of the honors principle, the Junior divisional examination deserves...
...Winthrop Street, at 7 o'clock tonight. H. M. Fox '28, president of the Club, will preside at the meeting, which will be open to all members of the University. Special invitations have been sent to prominent undergraduates, including members of the Lampoon and CRIMSON boards and the Harvard Student Council...