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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another day he journeyed to Andover, Mass., for the150th anniversary of Phillips ("Andover") Academy. Here he said: "The standards which the student body sets are high. They want accuracy that is well-nigh complete. They apply the same standards to candor and honesty. Bluff and pretense may be permitted in the classroom, but in their relations with each other students regard such practices with contempt and those who resort to them are properly considered cheap. . . . When the world holds its examinations it will require the same standards of accuracy and honesty...
...varsity crew weighs 1480 pounds. It is the beefiest crew that has been put together by any college for a long time. Last week in Philadelphia the Harvard cheering section sitting in a temporary grandstand built on the edge of the Schuylkill River yelled themselves hoarse and the student band boomed and whooped as that beefy crew pulled past the judges' barge three quarters of a length ahead of Penn, with the Navy third. "Beat Yale at New London and then try for the Olympics!" cried Harvard old grads...
...student shall lodge or board in any house disapproved by the Regent, and no undergraduate shall change his lodging without giving immediate notice to the Dean's office...
...seldom carried to the point of how much better it might work if differently constructed, or how long it would continue to work if subjected to a strain such as European governments are frequently called upon to resist. In the June number of Harper's Harold T. Laski, English student of Political Science, both examines the practical workings of the American political mechanism and raises the question of its adaptability to the unprecedented strains which the future is liable to bring forth...
...offend." They would do far better to follow Mr. Laski in his analysis of cherished American institutions and to reflect on the multifold weaknesses, actual and potential, therein involved. That the American system of divided responsibility makes neither for legislative coherence nor executive efficiency is a commonplace with any student of government. That it further hampers President and Cabinet members to a point which makes men of the highest ability chafe in either of these positions, and that it reduces the supreme legislative bodies of the land to groups of discontented and irresponsible obstructionists are indictments of too much verity...