Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School is one. Once we leave the impeccable faculty, the scene is dismal. Austin Hall is a dingy relic, its classrooms ill-lighted, its accommodations cramped. Hastings is a typical New York tenement; Perkins, a cell block. Even so, they can house only a minority of the students. There are absolutely no dining facilities. We visit the A.A. during the Fall--after purchasing student books--and are handed seats (week after week) in the recesses of the Colonnades. Should we complain, one of their impolite minions snaps back that Harvard "isn't your team...
...words of its President, the Student Council is "a medium for bringing before the governing bodies of the University expressions of undergraduate opinion." Because in certain directions the Council has recently shown a tendency to procrastinate, undergraduate opinion has been forced to find other channels of expression--to wit: a printed broadside about non-House men. The very existence of this brochure is in itself a criticism of the Council, an indication that it does not completely fulfill its supposed function. Yet this apparent failure is more the fault of the Constitution which governs the Council than of the individuals...
...percentages of men in the six scholastic groups rises steadily until groups five, the paradise of 23.2 percent of last year's student body, is reached...
...average student's chances of having his "connections with the University severed" are not really as great as one is led to believe. Out of the entire college last year only 4.6 percent, or 172 men, was expelled, as compared with 6.3 percent, or 234 men in the preceding year...
...certain Biology student, unable to locate the book he was hunting for, approached the liberarian at the Biological Laboratories and asked, "Do you have "Sex and Internal Secretions?" "What do you think?" replied the librarian, a saucy little brunette...