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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asking how much stress should be laid on the final examination in computing the grades for Government I, Professor Holcombe, whose letter appears in an adjoining column, raises a question of fundamental importance for all elementary courses at Harvard. Grades in advanced courses may usually without misgivings be determined on the basis of one or two examinations and possible a thesis. But the problem is not so easily solved for such large elementary courses as Government I, History I, or English...
...grind which little by little disheartens him and he never gets his head above water to enjoy the broader contacts College should give him. Let him approach ever so near the Dean's List--three "B's" and a "C" plus, say, at finals. His bourgeois friend whose ease and mental tranquility has allowed him to make four "B" minuses gets a fat scholarship, but he gets as little consideration from the scholarship committee as does the man on probation...
...study should come out with a mind rich in ideas, with a deeper knowledge of life and the meaning of life. Of course, he will have to know facts too, but they will only be important to him as forming a solid foundation for his ideas. A Senior whose primary interest is still in the dates of authors, and the names of books, and in the interrelations of sources, has wasted his four years, but yet this is the very kind of man for whom the English Department's examinations are designed. Upon such unimaginative amassing of insignificant facts...
Under the designation social club are included waiting clubs, final clubs, semifinal clubs, fraternities, and all other organizations whose aim is primarily social. Such activities clubs as the Dramatic Club, Glee Club, Instrumental Clubs, and Harvard Band Club are not considered in this category. Publications like the Lampoon and Advocate and honorary societies like Phi Beta Kappa are also excluded...
Among the various parts of the University that will have to pass through a more or less perplexing period of readjustment in the next few years the Harvard Union stands out as one whose problems will be most trying. Consequently the new change in the organization of its management comes at a peculiarly opportune time...