Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White . . . was among the earliest of our collectors to gather the choice and alluring volumes of the great Elizabethans. His judgment was excellent and he had a vivid understanding of this golden period, equalled by few scholars: He did not hesitate to lend his finest volumes to any student who showed an intelligent interest in English literature...
...potentialities. Sometimes the adviser, in spite of comprehensive reference sheets sent him from University Hall, is insufficiently informed. More than a little difficulty lies in the overlapping duties of the adviser, who may be also a section man in Harvard, a lecturer in Radcliffe, a tutor or a graduate student. Interviews more distinguished for epigrammatic than informative quality are the result...
Such change, would impose no great extra burden on the student's time, who must be prepared for the demands of the imminent tutorial system. The burden that spring brings to the adviser would thus be eased. Such, losses of time as result from a field of concentration changed in the Sophomore or Junior year would be minimized. Final selection in April would be the result of developed understanding of what Harvard College offers the thought-hungry. There seems no reason why the class of 1932 should be subject to methods of faculty advising so variant in quality as those...
...class, is a half sheet of hitherto unpublished notes for an address of President Eliot. The notes which are now preserved in manuscript form in Widener library are evidently a rough summary of points which President Eliot intended to bring out in an impending talk to some group of students. They give in concise form the characteristics which he thought most desirable in the college student, and also indicate several of the qualities for which he himself was notable...
Another possible reason for their actions may have be desire to gain publicity. This urge touches many persons and classes in the world at present and it may have a reached into the ranks of college student we doubt whether the students who turned down Phi "Beta" were common enough to be moved by such motives--Indiana Daily Student...