Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...portrait of Justice Brandeis '77, honorary A. M. '91, who celebrates his eighty-second birthday next Sunday, will be unveiled next Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock in the Court Room of Langdell Hall in the presence of members of the law school's Faculty and student body, friends and relatives of the justice, representatives of the Law School Association, and members...
...Student Union cabled liberal Oxford undergraduate organizations an armistice greeting yesterday as follows: "Students at Harvard, bound to you by common heritage, alarmed at unjust, dangerous Chamberlain foreign policy, urges British Youth make voice heard. On armistice day we send encouragement to democratic youth from across the ocean." (Signed) Harvard Student Union...
...each department or division passes judgment on its concentrators; and while the are no general regulations, a student is usually excused from writing more than the equivalent of one thesis in his field. But no such leniency is allowed toward course papers in other subjects, since they are outside a single department's jurisdiction. This leaves some men in the simple departments of study and a large number in the combination fields with more papers than they can handle, and very little they can do about...
There are a thousand stories about ghost writing; the student who spent fifty dollars to have his honors thesis written for him and received a D for his money, and the men who merely spent a dollar each week a few years ago and then could forget about their English A themes, are only two examples. Yet these stories represent a serious problem for the University that will remain as long as even a small percentage of students continue to be downright dishonest. Individual "ghosts" and organizations of them, local and national, plying their trade now as they have...
...even more important that every student should be made to see the light. If impossible to convince them that ghost writing is unethical, then it is necessary to show them its impracticality and risk. Correctors should check up every unusual reference (the suspicious attitude is unfortunate but necessary), and by this vigilance and by the severity of the punishment inflicted, they should fill the hearts of would-be wrongdoers with great doubts. Moreover, professors should be wary of assigning the same essay topics several years in a row, because stacks of ancient essays have a habit of developing...