Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scheduling of this type has been attempted unsuccessfully in the past. Fox blamed the earlier failures on the "short-sightedness" that marks Harvard dramatics. In January, the Inter-House Drama Committee tried to set up a schedule for Spring play activities in the Houses, but the conflicting productions of last weekend witness the shortcomings of this effort...
...Administrative people who come into contact with those leaving largely find that they cannot make generalizations about the type. This would seem to indicate that even if the psychiatrists' description of the people leaving is largely correct, it is certainly incomplete. Drs. Blaine and McArthur would be the first to admit this. Most University administrators coming into contact with people leaving feel that the decision to do so results from a feeling of lack of purpose and direction at Harvard...
...person who leaves voluntarily more introspective than the average student, is an articulate example of the University attitude. "In all the voluntary withdrawals the man feels he is not utilizing his opportunities as he should. He wants to study and can't. Or if he isn't a student type, he feels he should be having a worthwhile extracurricular life and isn't. Predominant in all these people is the awareness that one can have only four years at Harvard. They often leave at mid-term, because they think if they stay for finals, they'll lost the term completely...
Carroll F. Miles, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dunster House, has defined somewhat unique reasons for leaving: "The curious type is the student who leaves in January of his senior year. This is a person who is potentially bright but who has done nothing in college. He wants to go away in order that he can come back and have one great year. In some cases, usually seniors, students leave to postpone their occupational choice another year. Of course, sophomore year is the crucial one for most, a natural time to leave...
...scientific type of geography is today called geomorphology, differentiating it from the social science study of geography...