Word: todays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earlier Men Sirs: Most people have felt the urge to write their Congressmen or a "Voice of the People" to comment on passing events. What more apt writers of another day might have said today is pleasant conjecture...
Once upon a time Harvard Freshmen lived a precarious, hand-to-mouth life in dormitories and rooming houses all over Cambridge. Today first-year men dwell in the ancient Yard, deeded to the College in 1936; in the Harvard Union they had together, play pool, dance, and study...
Modern Harvard is a University a University which prides itself on the vitality of its undergraduate curriculum and the favorable opportunities afforded for the development of undergraduate life. In America today a young man when he has completed his school course, has a wide range of choice in regard to the next step in his education. He may decide to enroll in an institution of technology or a military academy; he may choose to enter a small college or to become an undergraduate in a university. If his choice falls on a university rather than on a college...
...many intellectual interests, and he should be able to distinguish between knowledge and superficial information. In four short years no one can take enough courses to begin to satisfy a really alive and active intellectual curiosity. One of the many things we fail to accomplish in our colleges today is to convince our students that self-education is really possible and can be profitably pursued through life
...Administration, however, did not answer the petitions. Even a Student Council resolution urging Feild's reappointment brought no word from the President's offices in University Hall. Today Harvard undergraduates are as far from having any say in the administration of their college as they were in the seventeenth century, when they rioted against horse-meat in Commons