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While a thorough knowledge of two foreign languages would be an undoubted asset to any American student, the educational conditions, as well as the geographical situation, of this country make it practically impossible for colleges to place so heavy a demand on their undergraduates. Harvard has so regarded such a requirement and has worked out a compromise between that and the minimum of one language consisting in a reading knowledge of another one and a beginner's knowledge of another language. The survey of a representative section of the Senior class printed in this morning's CRIMSON shows that...
While the difficulty of obtaining conclusive figures was manifest, the expression of varied opinions was often both clear and emphatic. A few Seniors felt that the present requirements were on the whole beneficial--that even if a student coming to Harvard had no particular interest in languages the requirement of an elementary knowledge was stimulating and broadening, while the man who passed the reading requirement in a language was generally fitted to use that language in his further college work. Some of the men who held this general opinion advocated the raising of the reading knowledge requirement to a higher...
...noise of a suction street-sweeper engaged in nocturnal activity near Harkness Hall provided the incentive for the demonstration. A group of students resented the presence of the machine and attempted to halt its progress. In the ensuing disorder, street-cars were besieged, and their trolleys disconnected. One of the Yale men was speedily arrested and led jail-wards, but this act served only to center the attention of the crowd upon the police officers and a force of rescuers marched in pursuit of the captive. A frontal assault upon the New Haven police headquarters, covered by a brief barrage...
John King Fairbank '29, of Sioux City, South Dakota, has been elected by the Student Council to fill the place of C. McK. Norton '29, who has resigned...
Wallace Russell Harper '30, of Ottumwa, Iowa, has been appointed chairman of the Student Council committee on Freshman affairs, it was announced yesterday. He succeeds A.E. French...