Word: students
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many of us the Student Council's proposal to abolish all minor and junior varsity sports came as a severe shock. Having worked hard to become sufficiently proficient in a minor or junior varsity sport to represent the fair name of Harvard, and then to find this sport abolished over night is more than a blow. Placed on a House basis, such sports as Cross Country, Lacrosse, Fencing, 150 lb. Crew, Rugby, and Soccer would greatly decrease in proficiency...
Strongly supported was the student contention that the national awards should go to undergraduates in their last two years of College training. It was argued that only in this way could the Latin-Americans brought to Harvard act as unofficial ambassadors of good will in their respective countries...
...believe this is the case. The Crimson fails to consider the essential reason for the existence of such establishments. If the Student Council poll was accurate, it is absurd to suppose that two-thirds of the undergraduate body are the indolent non-workers which you imply. What sends a student to a tutoring school in nine-tenths of the cases is not primarily a last-minute effort to get a course into his head; it is rather the desperate attempt of the average student to find some order in the chaos which a series of disorganized and pedestrian lectures leaves...
...United Student Peace Committee called a "strike against war" for April...
...Student. Born in Munich in 1900, the son of a Catholic schoolteacher, he became an ensign-bearer in the Eleventh Bavarian Infantry Regiment at 17, but saw no active service at the World War front. The War over, he joined Fhrer Hitler's struggling German Labor Party at 19, was noted more for his regular attendance at Munich beer-hall powwows than for any great forcefulness. To his parents he was a problem child; in his Party he had the reputation of a hellraiser. In the famed-and abortive-beer-hall Putsch of 1923 he marched along with...