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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book schools." The Mahatma proposes to teach India's children how to use their minds by teaching them how to use their hands. Chief subjects in the curriculum will be spinning, weaving, agriculture, sugar-making; chief instrument of education, the takli, a small spindle on which the student can spin yarn as he walks, talks, prays. As they learn these trades, India's school children will also learn history, geography, the three Rs. English will be taboo, for British de-Indianizing of the Indians, says Gandhi, is the nation's curse: "We are strangers...
Last spring a body of seventeen Juniors and Seniors was chosen to serve as the Harvard Student Council for the coming year. Nine of the men were elected by vote of their respective classes; eight additional members were appointed, so that this body might unify the undergraduates by representing each House, the out-of-House group, and the commuters...
Past Council investigations helped, at least in a small degree, to establish the House Plan, the tutorial and general examination systems, the Reading Period, changes in course requirements, the Temporary Student Employment plan, and the present system of intramural athletics...
Since the report shows the shift of student enrollment from the older "standard" fields of the Humanities toward the Social Sciences and the absence of a proportional shift of funds from one Department to another, it may prove a salutary "eye-opener". The Council hopes that many new students in the College will express an interest in the College will express an interest in the reports which may influence the course of their education at Harvard; copies of Council reports may be consulted in Phillips Brooks House...
...local charities in Cambridge and Boston, and to such national organizations as the Red Cross. It gives roughly three thousand dollars to Phillips Brooks House fund. It provides for a number of scholarships for deserving men who are unable to meet a term bill. Thus one purpose of the Student Council pledge system of contributions is to centralize the charitable work of Harvard undergraduates, to aid the worthwhile causes, and to relive students from undesirable solicitation throughout the year...