Word: undergoing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Yale fears is not that there be too little chance for that acquaintanceship on the perpendicular plane which the Committee believes is a vital need at Harvard but rather the loss of what has been called "Yale solidarity". With numbers forcing the chapel regulations to undergo a decided change at Yale the Alumni Weekly believes that the chance for such solidarity is departing Theater is nothing except the fraternity system, if one interprets the Weekly correctly, to blind the college together. So they suggest a further development of that system...
...current "Time" carries the announcement by President Faunce that Brown students will in the future have to undergo, not only a physical examination, but a mental and emotional inspection also. "Hundreds of students" says Dr. Faunce, "are held back by mental conditions of which their best friends are often unaware." This ought to be a platitude. And to seek a remedy for introspective unbalance is to attempt to control what ordinarily, like Topsy, just grows. It is to enter a field of progress more fundamental than pedagogical reform or curricula revision, but unfortunately not so well known. Men now juggle...
...meet their faculty advisor in conference and the faculty ensemble at tea; they are to discuss the question "why are you here?" and to hear old grads expound the college spirit and sing college songs. Besides, they are expected to take a psychological test during the week and to undergo a medical examination. Although the program has the advantage, now universally acclaimed, of familiarizing the student with his teachers at the very beginning of his college career, it nevertheless, in the form proposed, appears so compact a performance as to be confusing...
...uniforms which the University team will wear this year are to undergo a decided change from those formerly used due to an injunction by Coach Mitchell. The time-honored custom of wearing plain shirts has been abandoned and the Crimson players will open their season with the word "Harvard" emblazoned on their breasts...
President Lowell in his recent report called attention to the narrowness of the training which candidates for the doctorate undergo. In the current Alumni Bulletin is significant comment on one phase of this subject: "The average graduate student is greatly stimulated and enriched not only by his opportunities for study, but by his contact with his fellow-students, and carries the memory and the inspiration to the end of his days. But the social values are realized not because of, but in spite of, the conditions of his life in Cambridge. These men are the future professors of American colleges...