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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main function of the tutorial system is to allow the student contact with specially trained scholars whose knowledge of their subjects consists in more than an ability to compile an acceptable list of authorities the advantages of the Oxford plan cannot be denied. The specialist in American history is not likely to offer a deep understanding of medieval thought or of the Greek city state. It is only by working under a number of men, all of whom are doing special work in different periods, that the student of history has a fair chance of becoming imbued with a sympathetic...
...nevertheless cannot but be offended at the supercilious and insulting references which too often emanate from the university. It was not so long a time ago that a prominent professor of Harvard made slighting and flippant references to another section of our city, and now the Harvard Crimson, whose editorial columns have so often of late displeased a vast number of the alumni, as well as the vast majority of the students of the college, has taken upon itself the task of making invidious comparisons with reference to housing conditions in East Boston...
...contributed many prominent, men to the life of this country, all of whom came from the humble homes which the Harvard Crimson criticizes, and it appears to me ill-becoming those who represent a rich and socially powerful institution to cast aspersion upon the decent people of East Boston whose struggles and ambitions should have the support of the Harvard Crimson, and not its vicious criticism." Boston Post...
...Freshman nine journeys to Andover this afternoon to stack up against the local schoolboys. The yearlings should have no trouble in defeating the Academy, whose record of one win and seven defeats points to a rather weak team...
...Sophomores to the several houses is going to present many serious difficulties. The authorities indulge in glittering generalities, and profess to feel sanguine of its solution, but underneath the surface they must be really worried over the prospect of an annual chorus of complaint from the host of Sophomores whose first choice of a house must be turned down. That whole difficulty would disappear at once if it is the Freshmen, not the Sophomores, who are being assigned to the Houses. Freshmen, till they have matriculated, have no rights at all. They will go to the Houses to which they...