Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Student Vagabond" was first introduced as a daily feature of the CRIMSON three years ago. Its purpose is to let students know that certain lectures, which might prove interesting to them, are being given in a certain hall at a certain time. Any student of the University may listen in on almost any course whenever he wishes. The Vagabond announces what he considers to be the most interesting lectures given each day. So much for new members of Harvard University...
...Worcester has also made a change in the manner in which the course is conducted. At the end of each lecture the students will be given printed questionnaires covering the talk just completed and containing five questions. One of these questoins will be the subject of a short quiz at the following meeting, and the questions on the final examination will also be taken from these question sheets. At the end of the course in February, a one-hour test will be given, to pass which a knowledge of the lectures will be necessary. A student who fails to receive...
...occasions, from nearly every ailment in the oldest or newest medical catalogue. The symptoms are so often of a very complex nature that it is almost traditional to find reformers and nostrum dispensers digging far more deeply than necessary to find the cause and suggest the cure for student ailments. When a properly qualified person enters the field, and suggests a probable, though simple cause, he is ignored merely because he is not spectacular enough. The tabloids demand at least a scandal, and the serious-minded expect a psychological complication of the most severe sort...
Recent efforts to tear apart the shrouds which have surrounded the political clubs hereabouts serve only to emphasise the trance in which most of these organizations repose throughout the college experience of most of the student body. Every four years the adrenalin of a presidential campaign causes faint stirrings in the Harvard body-politic which feed the hopes of those gathered about the bier and which may be the signal for rejoicing, accompanied by the beating of tomtoms. Invariably and unfortunately the patient after a few inconsequential stirrings relapses into his former harmlessness...
...Undergraduates would then find it easy to take at least a voting interest in their local politics and to familiarize themselves through gubernatorial campaigns with the issues later reflected in national elections. An active executive committee, even without a large enrolled membership, could inaugurate such other services to the student voter as would suffice to keep his interest and command his respect...