Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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I do not advocate a great militaristic movement, but do feel that those men interested in the present situation would gain much through service in the Guard. They, as Harvard men, would be getting into an organization which has, more than once, stood for things above and beyond Harvard. William...
Inter-House debating will resume its second semester late in February, continuing through the spring. Sixteen debates are scheduled for that period, the same as last session.
That education has widely degenerated into "the mere acquisition of information" is the charge leveled at American colleges by Dean Landis in his most recent annual report. The charge is not new. It was on the theory that students must be "inoculated with the virus of self-perpetuating education"--which...
English lost ground in 1928 to Economics; Economics remained the most popular field through the depression years until 1932 when English again was the largest. Until 1937 these two alternated in being the field attracting the most students.
Such an attitude comes like a breath of much- needed fresh air in an academic world grown somewhat 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...