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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would like to correct the prevalent impression that the Glee Club will give only one concert this year. The situation really is that in place of its usual series of two concerts in Symphony Hall for men's voices and a soloist, there will be only one concert in the series this year, and that will be for mixed voices and orchestra. The Glee Club will appear in many concerts besides this as usual, in schools, and public concerts in and out of Cambridge. The so-called single concert in Symphony Hall is the result of a new policy...
...dormitories in the Yard been decided upon. It has been suggested, however, that those dormitories will be used by members of the Freshman class, prior to their entering into one of the Houses. It was pointed out in the CRIMSON during the discussion last year that such an arrangement would seem to be not only practicable in relation to the mechanics of the House Plan but would be most advantageous from the point of view of the Freshmen. If tradition, associations and atmosphere can have any hold upon the undergraduate, there should be no better time than at the beginning...
...change, inasmuch as the practice of Seniors living in the Yard is of comparatively recent origin and not a custom hoary with age as is generally supposed. Traditions become weighted with seeming importance through their long continuance, but they should not be allowed to interfere with real progress. It would be absolutely incompatible with the purpose and spirit of the House Plan to expect Seniors who had previously spent two years in one of the Houses to break the associations formed during this time and herd together in the Yard during their last year...
...problem of athletic organization is going to be a particularly important one when the House Plan gets definitely started. Next year it would be impracticable to attempt to superimpose house teams on class teams on account of the limited number of those who could take part, but eventually the problem will come up and will demand careful attention. The question as to who will deal with it is an important one. Will the house masters and tutors whose interests are admittedly on the academic side of the new development take time out of their regular duties to try to decide...
Speaking at a Thanksgiving dinner for American students today. Dr. Will Spens, master of Corpus Christi College, expressed a belief that the adoption by Yale and Harvard of the English college system would be likely to fall. The local success of the system could only be maintained after 300 years of experiment and under conditions peculiarly English, he explained...