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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elementary courses have bristled with problems for the University. It has often been felt that lack of correlation between different fields gives a restricted view to the student. For example, History concentrators who must take Economics A as a prerequisite, should be introduced to a new kind of thought, and be shown how Economics fits in with History. Instead, these men often struggle through Economics A and come out at the end of the year with little understanding of economic thought and a definite revulsion to economic theory. If a large number of people are prejudiced against Economics as opposed...
This is only one aspect of a much larger problem,--the whole question of coalescing, enlarging, and correlating various fields of study. This question is now under the deliberation of both the Student Council and University Hall. Regarding the more limited field of elementary survey courses, it is quite possible that some time in the near future Harvard may set up a system of introductory courses similar to those at Chicago and Columbia Universities. There, several fields are included under a few very broad topics such as the Humanities and the Physical Sciences...
...past few years, his work has been taken for granted; but then it involved a radical change in, policy, and later proved vitally significant. It meant that Harvard gained good-will among the public because of its being presented in its true colors, and meant also that the student body would now gain valuable men which it previously lost because of unfavorable reports...
Speeches by Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy and Joseph P. Lash, Executive Secretary of the American Student Union will feature the Student Union Banquet to be held at 7:30 o'clock tonight in Leverett House...
Chief Leahy sent the bomb to Captain Van Amburgh, State ballistics expert, for examination. "This was definitely not a student prank," commented Leahy. "There was a vicious motive involved...