Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a little more than two years the exclamations of ecstatic admiration and the charges of pampering are died away, and the designers of Harvard's House Plan may look with experience into an eternity to discover how the system may develop and succeed. Time has shown that the success lies not in effulgent gold, nor even in extra plumbing and panelled libraries, but mainly in the personalities of the resident tutors. On their backs falls the responsibility for making the plan more than a glorified house party, the Houses more than fraternities with inadequate black-balling systems...
...future of the resident tutor must be attractive enough to hold men of brilliance on tutorial staffs. To continue its success the House Plan should make the position of tutor either, a stepping-stone, or enticing enough to hold men of value. How this is to be done cannot be predicted, but some answer to the question of what reward is adequate for a good tutor must be made before the best tutors leave the Houses for more exciting or more remunerative callings...
...game would in all probability be held, and that G. L. Casey '19, Harvard Varsity mentor, had been asked to organize an all-star team of senior class members in various New England schools and had not yet definitely declined. He also declared that optimism as to the financial success of the game was warranted by the $150,000 receipts at a similar December charity game in New York in 1930. Coach McLaughry of Brown has also been approached as a possible organizer. Casey, at a late hour last night, said that he would have nothing to do with...
...that the newly-elected Reichstag does not select a ministry of its own, it will be dissolved, with the result that new elections will be ordered for sometime in February. This will give Von Papen's economic program a chance to show results. Von Papen has already achieved some success in his programs, notably a decrease in unemployment, the dropping of reparations payments for the time being, and his success in pleasing nationalist sentiment by his demand for equality in armaments...
...Varsity's next game is with M.I.T. on Saturday. The Tech booters have met with little success thus far this season, having been beaten in practically every game. On the following week Harvard meets Yale who has an exceptionally strong team this year, in the final game of the season. The Crimson Varsity has not yet been beaten, but has been tied three times...