Word: suggests
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...days before the opening of the second half-year many men will have occasion to select new courses from the many that are about to begin. To these men, and especially to Seniors and others who are finishing their undergraduate course, we would suggest as a factor in all choices the personality and reputation of the instructors. Many men have gone through Harvard, adhering to a rigid schedule of courses or to a crooked line of least resistance determined by snap courses, and have failed altogether to avail themselves of the presence here of some of the most distinguished scholars...
...urged against such a change as we here suggest that the primary object of the Senior dormitory plan is that the members of a class may be heterogeneously mixed, and that friendships and acquaintances may be extended. As a matter of fact, the conditions are quite otherwise. Senior year is not the time when new friendships are formed; it is rather the occasion for the intensifying of old friendships. The groups of four or of two keep to themselves, and it often happens that men living in the same entry are entire strangers to each other...
...taken home and returned Monday morning without having been opened, while those in demand in the Library are sure to be used diligently. It seems, then, that if the reserved books are allowed to go out over Sunday, the Library might just as well be closed. We would suggest that the reserved books, if allowed out at all, be returned Sunday at 1 o'clock. In this way they would reach a good many more men, and fewer would go away dissatisfied...