Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON questionnaire late in the spring of 1938 disclosed that 85 per cent of Harvard's upperclassmen participate in some extra-curricular activity. Athletics led the list in popularity, closely followed by publications, Phillips Brooks House (social service center), with music, athletic managing, Student Union (political society), debating, and dramatics trailing in that order...
...choose from a field of six. Oldest of Harvard undergraduate periodicals is venerable Mother Advocate, literary magazine founded in 1866. The Lampoon monthly humor magazine, and the CRIMSON, college daily, complete the traditional trinity. Other magazines are the Guardian, social science organ; the Progressive, newly founded mouthpiece of the Student Union; and the Monthly, sporadic competitor of the Advocate...
...Student Union is difficult to classify. A descendant of the old Liberal Club and an affiliate of the American Student Union, it is a combination of a political forum, political study society, and non-partisan liberal pressure group. There is usually a large and active Freshman division...
...university education for an undergraduate, (and I think I am thus to be classified) could not fail to recognize that for certain individuals other institutions of higher education might be better. It is of great importance to this country that this varied choice continue to be offered to the student fresh from school. Each type of institution must proceed along its own particular path of development without trying to copy another...
...instruction offered to undergraduates. Almost all academic disciplines are available to the second-year man, at least, and each subject may be pursued through advanced courses almost to the frontiers of knowledge. In Harvard the same faculty has jurisdiction over the undergraduate curriculum and the work of the graduate student in Arts and Sciences. In many departments there is no line dividing the ambitious senior from the first-year graduate student...