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...number of House Masters, who after all are more closely concerned with the problem of parietal rules than any one else, have let it be known they consider the new law unnecessary and ridiculous. A sensible viewpoint was expressed by Professor Murdock of Leverett House who, in a talk on October fifth, admitted that rule would prove unworkable. He showed the casual attitude with which the Masters had approached the problem when he said that the present rule had been accepted "because it seems less absurd than any other rule that has been suggested...
...opinion there is great need for, and there does not exist, a well-written, factual, entertaining and impartial contemporary history -a history which takes up one year after another in volume after volume-each beginning with Jan. 1 and ending with Dec. 31, each written from the fresh viewpoint of the given year...
Since the advent of President Angell, Yale has been engaged in a self-transformation analagous to that at Harvard under the Lowell, Conant regime. From one viewpoint, the changes at New Haven have been more radical, for Yale has been bogged down in the past by a more powerful pedagogical conservatism than her Cambridge sister. Today Yale has to her credit, among other things, a munificent endowment, fine technical facilities, a House plan comprising fine buildings, weird combination of Gothic and Georgian though they be, an increasing enrollment of celebrated scholars and teachers, as well as a Law School with...
...work. But as learning makes the life blood of the arts, so the arts stimulate men's minds for things intellectual and start them on a feast of which college is no more than the hors d'oeuvres. Then, professional training remains for post-graduate work, with the college viewpoint left unclouded by "the dull glasses of immediate utility." The houses and tutorial system make healthy student life an everyday reality...
Appearing before the Associated Harvard Clubs meeting yesterday, three undergraduates, Rendigs T. Fels '39, Edward O. Miller '37, and Norman L. Cahners '36, spoke on different aspects of college life from the viewpoint of the undergraduate...