Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, stated strongly that a good course in biology ought to be included in the education of every college student. "Man is an animal and ought to know himself and his fellow animals--inferiors or superiors. The neglect of biology in education seems to me one of the most fundamental errors committed by unenlightened pedagogues...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, claimed that science, better than anything else, teaches students to think clearly. "So many men who have concentrated in history or government, for example, become walking encyclopedias. They spout dates, facts, and other persons' theories, but have not learned to think for themselves. In the science lab the student learns to work out his own problems by himself...
...parties can make this agreement the foundation of a lasting structure. Conceivably, if standards of living continue to rise in the next few years, the Union will be justified in asking further wage increases;--but it must be remembered that every increase will mean either drastic restriction of Temporary Student Employment, or increased dining hall prices, or both. Certainly if the Social Security law is not amended to include educational institutions, the University will be obliged to increase the return now provided by its pension plan and to grant the Union's demand that it be put on a voluntary...
...wish to correct a statement that appeared in Monday's Crimson. When the Harvard dining-hall employees met Sunday night in Cypress Hall, the Student Union as a whole had not yet defined its stand on the present labor situation in the dining-halls, Mr. Ogden, who spoke at that meeting made no pledge of support from the Student Union as a whole. He did, however, promise the cooperation of the Labor Committee which had had an opportunity to review the situation and arrive at a position. We offer this correction only to indicate that the decisions of the Students...
...executive committee of the Harvard Student Union, after hearing a report from the Labor Committee and discussing it at length, voted support of the dining-hall employees' attempt to better their working conditions." Rufus Mathewson '41, Chairman of the HSU Labor Committee...