Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cover their subjects adequately in the shortened semester are further limited by necessary but irrelevant attention to mechanical detail. The November hours belie their name with a premature October appearance that is particularly unwelcome to Seniors who have taken divisional a week or two before. And the student who is taking more than one of these courses must forego any hope of systematic digestion, to move in jumps in a depressing game of scholastic parchesi...
Proceeding to outline the development of the fraternity from its small beginning at William and Mary College of Virginia, he said: "Until 1907, the Harvard Chapter elections were based entirely on student standings as evidenced in the records of the College office. At that time several changes were introduced. The custom of honoring specially eight men each year from the Junior Class was inaugurated. Twenty-two seniors were elected at the same time and provision was made for the electors to select later in the year five more students from the Senior Class whose mathematical records would not qualify them...
...Thus for eligibility at that time, a student must possess a degree magna or summa cum laude. The increase of membership besides honoring these scholars allowed the fraternity to match its growth with that of the University and for the first time in several years has the Chapter represented the traditional 10 percent of the graduating class...
...current in the field of the humanities of widening the latitude of study to embrace topics related to the central theme in their status as background or sources. An understanding of these rich stores of artistic symbolism will deepen the meaning of the carved or painted subject for the student. There have been men who could explain the significance of Judith and Holofernes in oil or marble, who did not know, to borrow sporting parlance, what league these principals played...
...Harvard Student Council Budget Committee reports that between 14 and $15,000 have been pledged to the Council fund, a sum greater than the amount pledged in any previous year. The Student Council Fund is a welfare federation of Harvard University, substituting a single collection for the many drives for money previously made. The Salvation Army and the Red Cross, as well as the several class funds, the Phillips Brooks House, and the Student Council, share in the money collected by the Council. The Budget Committee requests that the unpaid pledges made at the time of registration, and which...