Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Lanigan '39, organizer of the Committee, emphasized its aim as arousing student interest to work for "an intelligent, progressive" Congressman. Eliot is up against the incumbent Congressman, 77-year-old, anti-New Deal Robert Luce...
...believes strongly in mental discipline for its own sake. He favors the study of classics in secondary school as excellent mind training and self-education, and rather approves of the idea that the subject should contain more drudgery than interest. At a later time in discussing the minds of students, Dr. Lowell says they do not object to strict discipline in itself, particularly if they are responsible for the result. But he does not take into consideration the fact that it is only when a student is genuinely interested that he will drill and grind at a subject, otherwise...
Launching what will probably be its major project of the year, the Student Council last night voted to conduct an investigation of education of Harvard in general, with particular reference to the systems of concentration, tutorial instruction general examinations, and to the fields in which no tutorial or general examinations are required...
...scholarship work, Bunker, Amory, Freed, and Neal will have charge of awarding undergraduate stipends throughout the year. The awards, averaging fifty dollars, are granted to apply on a student's term bill...
...premise that marks are a very accurate criterion of success after college. Life is one great competition, he implies, and he who can organize his forces best at an examination at college will do the same afterward. This ignores the difference in the amount of time each student spends studying, for as long as grades in exams tend to vary according to the amount memorized and hence the time spent, it is the hard worker, not the man with initiative, who will rank best. Yet the grind is not the most apt to succeed. A more accurate measure of ability...