Word: takings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John M. London '41 will be the next president of the Harvard Guardian, retiring president Euno R. Hobbing '40 announced yesterday. Lester G. Hawkins '41 is succeeding Ward Mcl. Hussey '40 as editor-in-chief, and Joseph A. Hartman '41 will take the place of Roger L. Werner as business manager...
...vogue, are the theories of teaching outlined by the poet Robert Frost in a recent interview with the press. Mr. Frost, who is conducting a weekly class at Harvard this year, holds no brief for stereotyped spoon-fed education. He states frankly that for him education is a take-it- or-leave-it affair in which he will "just keep silent, or even lie down on the desk until it is realized that what I want is self-starters, not followers of a set routine...
...musty with too much concern for the mechanical means of education and too little attention to the long-run ends. Though one can perhaps charge Mr. Frost and those of his kind with trying to sensationalize education, so passive has the intellectual role of college students become that it takes considerable effort to jar them out of the well-marked grooves in which they slide along and to force them to do independent thinking . . . Fed several times daily on a diet of formal lectures, prodded by quizzes and factual check-up tests to take every forward step, many undergraduates lose...
Russell, who is now Assistant to the President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, will be in charge of the placement of members of the Faculty who are leaving the University, and will take office on February...
McConnell says, "Take any 100 Harvard men and they'll average up better than any other 100 men you can find. They're intelligent, democratic, and they use very little profanity. And that's becoming more true every year...