Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good fortune has been so disorganized and well nigh chaotic that it might almost be called natural. Or, perhaps, Harvard has not so much ruled out the yeast as to remove all those leavening distractions which to some degree save the student from the set and sterile point of view of its academic side, its ever-encroaching zeal for "scholarship", and the bugbear of the graduate schools. Our critics are wont to accuse us of being unbalanced if not actually drunk, however...
...English system, in being transplanted, necessarily has been changed in many ways, with the especial purpose of adapting it to the American point of view. It would seem wise to start with as clear a slate as possible with no definite committments to certain methods merely because they have been successful in another country. It has become fairly obvious by this time, that several of the tutors in Lowell House, enthusiastic over the English system because it seemed to fit their personal needs, are unduly eager to start this House off with a strong anglophile bias...
...rank and file of Harvard students can hardly be expected to concur with this view and suspicion has already been aroused against what seems to be an artificially imposed British cast to the plans for Lowell House. The difference in social habits and the aims of higher education existing in the two countries precludes the possibility of any wholesale grafting of England's educational system upon that of the United States. Undoubtedly there are some features of the English system which may be useful in an American College, but just what these are can be more soundly determined...
Americans hear and read so often of the French view, that the horde of tourists from the United States annually visiting that country are loud, ill-bred, uncouth and make a vulgar display of money, that one wonders why the "retort courteous" is not more often resorted...
...team A will play an important match with Newton Center, leaders in the State interclub squash series. The result of this match will not be decisive but will give an indication as to what may be expected later in the season. The competition will be stiff this year in view of the fact that no team in the leading division has won more than three-fifths of its matches. Most of the teams have two matches behind them and of the 26 players in class. A only ten remain unbeaten and of these but four have won two matches...