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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reporting at Cambridge on the day that the Freshmen register, the "welcome committee" in each Freshman dormitory, holding office hours from 12 to 2 o'clock for a week, and eating in the Freshman dining halls, will function as it did this year. A large number of Freshman made use of the advisers in the Common Rooms last September, and the Committee feels that this feature of the system is worth retaining...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT TO SUGGEST ADVISORY CHANGES | 12/15/1927 | See Source »

...Harvard Law School has been using the case system for years, and has found it an excellent way of stimulating independent thought. A few years ago, prospective business men went to law school in order to obtain training in scientific methods of research and unshackled thinking--prime requisites in any field of endeavor. Now the mountain has come to Mahomet, and the Harvard Business School uses the case method, with the three-fold purpose of exciting critical analysis, encouraging the use of scientific methods, and giving training in business procedure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEXT CASE | 12/15/1927 | See Source »

...basement will contain 36 study rooms for the students doing research work, several stack rooms, like the present ones in Widener Library, and all the locker rooms. Here also will be located a large vault to protect the valuable papers and documents which the Law School possesses. For the use of those working in the library, 98 stack cubicles also will be placed in the basement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANGDELL HALL TO UNDERGO CHANGES | 12/14/1927 | See Source »

...that they know what they will do with her, and with him too. They mutter that woman's place is not in the home, at least not in that of the Governor. At any event, this struggle of the Praetorian Guards with the senate, despite allegations of the electorial use of intimidation in Chicago, does not signify that the day has come when the superior armed force determines the local government. Bernard Shaw wrote of "Arms and the Man"--and now the Oklahoma legislature attempts to determine the relations of arms and the woman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FEMININE TOUCH | 12/14/1927 | See Source »

...likes as well as Boston. "I hope I may be able to return there, but I fear not. We are now in the regions of slavery, and spittoons, and senators. All three are evils in all countries, but the spittoon is the worst. I don't see the use of it, either. If it be in deference to the opinion of society, I for one, would rather not be obliged to imagine constantly what may be inside that circular orifice. I prefer the box of sand, which is a candid piece of furniture, and invites contemplation. But why one should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: XMAS BIBLIOPHILIA IS FEATURED AT WIDENER | 12/13/1927 | See Source »

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