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...least among large groups of students, and points of contact among them all. This task is not confined to any one college, although more urgent in the case of those that have grown the largest and have been moving most rapidly. A number of colleges are feeling their way toward a more definite structure, and since the problem before them is in many cases essentially the same, it is fortunate that they are assisting one another by approaching it from somewhat different directions. What I have to say upon the subject here is, therefore, intended mainly for the conditions...
Owing to the reduced attendance at Memorial Hall on the American plan last year, the Managing Committee thought it expedient to organize the equipment and service this year in such a way as to accommodate satisfactorily 600 members without incurring a deficit. They believed that this could be done without loss by putting a certain portion of the plant out of commission. The enrollment of members has so far exceeded expectations that the Committee has decided to utilize the whole plant and to organize the service so as to accommodate 1200 members. As this change cannot be put into effect...
...effort has been made to correlate all the work and thus enable any student to continue his courses from year to year toward a definite goal. All new applicants will consult a board of advisers who will determine their fitness to enter any course; in this way, they will only take the studies for which they are fully prepared and thus derive the greatest benefit. If an applicant is not prepared for any course he desires to take, every effort will be made to help him. This will be aided further by grouping the courses in the different departments which...
...Appian Way...
...torchlight parade is the accepted Harvard way of expressing undergraduate enthusiasm on great occasions. In this college generation there have been two celebrations of the sort, one to mark the tercentenary of the birth of John Harvard, and the other as the culminating feature of a political campaign. The present circumstances have more direct interest for the students than those attending either of the other parades, and consequently there is greater reason for wishing to make as impressive a showing as possible...