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...Dampeer, Whit, Litman...
...Both Yale and Columbia have made justifiable names for themselves, too, and several colleges in the west are fast coming into prominence in this respect. Ardent adherents may exclaim that Harvard's law training is as fine today as ever and that the years of tradition should in no whit be changed, but such sentiments are equivalent to virtual reaction. With the inception of a new housekeeper comes the obvious time to clean house and the law faculty might well profit by such time-tested, if homely, anioms...
...various lecturers, the need for correlated reading lists cries out louder; Economics 2a and 41 are specific cases where review for the examination would be immeasureably helped by a full printed outline. Meeting the students half way in this matter will not reduce the standards of learning a whit, but during the cramming season, it will make the men less dependent on outside sources...
...various systems in use at present range from what might almost be called the sublime in practicability and popular favor to the ridiculous. Leverett House relies on the good faith of its members to sign a pledge book in the library; caring not a whit, seemingly, how many members choose to donate anything. Lowell House capitalizes on its dances, relying on these profits for its funds, though the criticism is prevalent that such a method tends to cast too commercial a pallor over something that should be free from the money taint. Adams swings to the other extreme in demanding...
Three Ingrahams and three Whit-becks dominated the courts in the boom years, while an equal quantity of Gliddens and Arensbergs seem to have kept up the tradition during the depression. The last of the Gliddens, John, is now serving spheroids for Exeter Academy but is due here next year to take on the mantle cast off by Germaine...