Word: years
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program has not yet been announced. Last year Professor Copeland read from the works of James Stephens, Robert Browning, Stephen Leacock, and Robert Benchley...
...Tutoring Bureau is one of the few activities at present conducted by Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard, and it is potentially one of the most valuable ways in which the Society can be of service. It is unfortunate that the Bureau is not organized sooner in the year, but the small number of members until after the November elections is responsible for its late appearance. The aim of this type of tutoring is not identical with that of the coaching-schools that have mushroomed up around the Square. The art of studying is not to be learned the night before...
...easy one of undergraduate inertia must be found for the fact that fewer than one-half the men eligible voted in the Senior elections held last Wednesday. Granted that the present generation at Harvard has putgrown any yearning for strenuous political activity, there has nevertheless existed, even in recent year, much more interest in the choosing of class-officers than was manifested by the Class of 1930. The chief reason for the slight vote is rather to be found in the range of polling places and of time for voting. There are two alternatives either of which would increase...
...Daily a system of supervised dormitories for men hardly represents the ideal in student living quarters. For first-year men there may be an advantage in dormitories where they can make contacts and friendships, and possibly have some. Hollywood ideas of college corrected under tactful guidance, but the watchdog attitude that a dormitory supervisor is forced to assume should certainly not be carried beyond the freshman year. It stunts the development of self-reliance and self-discipline, both of which will be of equal importance with academic achievement when the student finds himself unshielded by his alma mater...
...Last year the Bureau was maintained throughout most of the second half-year, without being much employed, Such an experiment could well be repeated, but its value depends entirely on the consent of the tutees. In teaching while there is still time to learn, the organization should be useful and stimulating; but the accurate compilation of spot passages is, properly, outside its sphere, and the man who aims merely at passing examinations will find it of little...