Word: view
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world, such as banking, teaching, or manufacturing, Mr. Henry Jewett, Director of the Repertory Theatre, said yesterday in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter, that he was planning to offer to a limited number of Harvard students interested in the theatre, either from an acting or playwriting point of view, opportunities to train themselves under his and his company's direction...
Possibly the Advocate author chose to view all sides of the question. In so doing, however, he has defeated his own ends: perusal of the article leads one to object to the "Professional Tutor' (why so called? Tutors in Harvard College are equally professional and, in many cases, quite as efficient) solely on one ground--his rates are exorhitant. His services are acknowledged to be of great value and often essential; his prices alone mark him as a Pariah...
...such a view the Advocate's critic has offered his vulnerable side. He says that there is a great class, composed "of those who are of average intelligence and ambition but who are so unfortunate as to be enrolled in courses in which the reading is too difficult to review and the lectures too disjointed to form a possible unity." To forestall this difficulty and to eliminate the outside tutor he would have professors: 1. provide a careful outline of the course 2. in this outline include "a detailed summary of not only the lectures but an outline...
...brief notes on the Reading Period from the Library's point of view I contributed to the CRIMSON earlier in the week, one point was not mentioned which is worth calling to the attention of men who are planning their work carefully. The so-called Reading Period of two weeks follows directly after the Christmas Recess, which is often used as a reading period, and immediately precedes the examination period, which is most distinctly a time for reading. In fact, if we choose to regard it so, we are to have a "reading period" covering six successive weeks...
...changing nature of the way University Hall looks upon the Freshman has brought corresponding changes in the undergraduate relations with him. The segregation of the Freshman class in the river dormitories with a view of giving them what may be termed a class consciousness, a sentiment that is believed to undergo a renascence in the Senior year, has its weaknesses. One of them is that acclimatization comes slowly. There has been a corresponding growth in importance of the service rendered by the student advisory board...