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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First, participation is an excellent means of education. A student can learn far more about the reality of social and economic questions by group work than by mere reading or observation; this is what hard-headed men call "experience." You condone one type of action--"first-hand experience" without taking sides. But this is little more than observation, less valuable than what the educators call "learning through doing." Secondly, the Harvard Student Union hopes to give the student a place of some small importance as a doer, as well as an absorber; in doing this, it hopes to contribute...
Last Wednesday a building service worker claimed that before the Depression the standard wage for this type of work was $30 a week. Three pay cuts reduced salaries of many to as low as $24, he said, adding that the $2 average increase did not effect a complete restitution...
...Conant said that those students now working their way through college are of the highest type and added, "we can afford to bet heavily on them by paying all their expenses of education." The Harvard president enunciated the doctrine upon which education will probably be carried on in the future. At least his suggestion seems to be the most democratic method yet proposed. --Syracuse Daily Orange...
...romantic German symphonies. As a composer he cannot be identified with any school. "People have been puzzled and annoyed," said good-natured, courtly Enesco in an interview, ''because they have been unable to catalog and classify me in the usual way. They could not decide exactly what type of music mine was. It was not French, after the manner of Debussy, it was not exactly German. That, I feel sure, comes from the fact that my musical education was not confined to one locality...
However, there is action of another type which involves study of governmental and political problems by actual observance. This practical and first-hand experience is valuable and educative in itself, so long as the study groups refrain from taking sides on the issue involved. As a live, intellectual and worthwhile discussion group, the Harvard Chapter of the American Student Union has great potentialities, and, if it were so inclined, could become a leading force in the Yard. The student's most effective place is in the University, where he has time and opportunity to study, learn, and think; but when...