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...columns of yesterday's issue appeared the Club Agreement which was drawn up in 1914 to define and restrict the canvassing and election of underclassmen to nearly all of the Harvard undergraduate clubs. The CRIMSON has published the same agreement annually since 1914 and has a rule allowed it to pass without editorial comment. Again this year it would be left unnoticed were it not obviously necessary to point out that the agreement is regarded by a large number of the more prominent clubs as a mere scrap of paper...
...problem of acquainting freshman and sophomores with the nature of the entire crop before turning them loose to pitch, thrash and store a special portion. He concluded by wondering if there was not great merit in "project" studies as advocated by Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn and others-assigning to underclassmen single historic episodes -perhaps the Greek civilization in the freshman year, and the 19th Century U. S. for sophomores- and helping them to take it to bits, see how, why and whither it worked. Dr. Meiklejohn has proposed the "project" for small colleges. Dr. Frank indorsed the plan for a large...
...with any particular birth mark the university certainly has sufficient epidemic blemishes in the form of freshman romanticists of the violent sort. For defying the gentle deities of tradition, certain underclassmen, perhaps influenced by the British Labor Strike, perhaps by mere spring fever and a taste for novelty, yesterday made of an old and excellent university tradition a riot worthy of Donald Ogden Stewart's conception of Harvard and little more...
...plan of the Education Committee of the Student Council would not force philosophy upon uncongenial minds. It could not. What the committee does suggest is that underclassmen gain some appreciation of the land they are entering before they study the brass on its gates. These freshmen have by their coming to Harvard implied that they are willing to attempt some philosophical appreciation of their world and of their place in their world. So the philosophy course, given in the manner suggested by the committee, a course in which some few great attempts at meta-physical and ethical understanding are interestingly...
...onus of selecting his own studies. The modern institution of learning thus becomes a vast intellectual cafeteria at which the immature student orders a la carte and suffers indigestion for his folly. In remedy President Frank suggests abandoning the elective system and the futility of smatterings, and teaching, to underclassmen at least, a single subject which has wholeness, and the meaning and interest which flow therefrom...