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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be possible, however, to group Harvard students in small college units, and that is the proposal of the undergraduates on the council The unit in their view should consist of about three hundred sophomores, juniors and seniors, who would live together in a group of adjacent dormitories. The change would not affect the teaching system. Each college would have its own commons and its own dean. The collocation of the present dormitories, it is pointed out, is suitable for the college plan, so the scheme from a physical standpoint is not chimerical...
...college, in the first place, must remain large. Yet it also must remain efficient. To do both and continue as one unit in the present sense, is to become a machine. And culture has yet to result from the functioning, however perfect, of a machine. So there is only one possible method of maintaining the tradition and preserving the culture of less hurried years: that is to divide the college into small units under the same head. This, of course, does not mean that Harvard is to be chopped into bits and thown into the jaws of modernity. It suggests...
...colleges" on the English plan is advanced with some very clear and cogent reasoning. It is of course, based on the present condition of unwieldiness, of dispersion, of separation and hopeless unacquaintance on the part of the great body of students. Harvard, in its present condition, cannot be a unit. It is too large to accomplish one of its main purposes. The plan of the committee of the Student Council is to split the upper class students (the Freshman, by that time, being all required to live in college dormitories) into six residential units, each having its common room...
...signs of a drift toward English methods in dealing with the question. The two great English Universities represent more centuries of educational evolution than most of our own have dared to contemplate. Even a generation ago, Harvard University was a compact and easily handled college, a veritable cultural unit, compared with what it is now. The suggestion of the Student Council is at least well worthy of careful study...
...Harvard is so large, it is not a unit at all. . . . The committee is convinced that the ultimate solution is to divide the upper classmen transversely into permanent groups for purposes of residence; or, in other words to subdivide Harvard College into colleges...