Word: whether
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Student Council committee distributed 3000 questionnaires in order to determine whether the tutoring schools "have grown out of their natural proportions." 1300 replies were received; and from this number, the Council decided that the schools were a wide-spread and "corrosive influence on Harvard's educational standards...
Today 4000 ballots will be distributed to student rooms in the Houses, dormitories, Dudley, and privately-owned residences. The emphasis will not be, as in 1936, on whether tutoring is bad. Instead the poll, which will be "strictly confidential," will deal with the reasons and extent of tutoring in regard to University curriculum...
...unfortunately enough, cannot be taken as assurance that all the other flingers of the nation's pastimes are as well off. For this season in the sport might well be termed the year of the sore-arms, or at least, the year of the question-mark arms. Whether due to the widely discussed influence of the "rabbit" quality in American horsehide, or to the more mundane belief that managers have overworked their pitchers, the fact remains that an inordinate percentage of the country's pitching greats have grievous afflictions in their flippers. Carl Hubbell, Dizzy Dean, Bob Feller, Lefty Grove...
...that the Associates plan will care for many of them, whether they may be able to be allied with Dudley, is a question at the present writing. The powers that be in the athletic world here, nevertheless, must fit these men into the competitive scheme of things. Financially, this task will be made very much less difficult by the Committee's plan...
When this investigation was first proceeding, there was raised the question of whether or not to allow Varsity men to compete in sports closely akin to those in which the Varsity men made their mark. And it was the unanimous opinion of the Committee that such men added much needed dignity to the House sports. Under the plan now proposed this dignity has been given serious consideration and was one of the cornerstones upon which we built...