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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room and establish headquarters there for foreign students. The rearrangement of the room will be made with a view to embodying all the qualities of a club: Periodicals and books from most of the foreign nations will be kept on the shelves, and tea will be served on certain afternoons. While taking this step in realizing a headquarters for the social life of the foreign students and their friends, the committee announced that it is an experiment relative to the possible future establishment of an International House at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS HERE | 12/6/1929 | See Source »

There has been an increasing amount of discussion in recent years of the pros and cons of certain features of the present system of General Examination in History Government and Economics. Men concentrating in this division take three three hour examinations at the end of the Senior year; one covering the department of History, Government or Economics as the case may be one on a special field with in the department and a so called "general" examination on the two related departments in which the student is not concentrating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENERAL EXAMINATIONS | 12/3/1929 | See Source »

Various steps might be taken to remedy the present situation it has been proposed by some to abolish the examinations in "related" fields entirely. And substitute certain course requirements which would cover the ground. But this suggestion is hardly in line with the increasing emphasis toward tutorial work as distinguished from mere counting of courses. Another solution might lie in giving these examinations at the conclusion of the Sophomore or Junior year so that men would have a fresher knowledge of the subjects and would have more leisure to prepare for them. While there is much to be said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENERAL EXAMINATIONS | 12/3/1929 | See Source »

...advantage of the chain store organization which is overtaking the movies nowadays is that if you miss a picture at one theater it is almost certain to turn up sooner or later at another. At the Central Square this week are two such attractions. "The Virginian," which has been reviewed before in the Playgoer columns, and "Honky Tonk...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/3/1929 | See Source »

...thirty measurements of each of 400 skulls, reduced them to percent-ages, grouped them by locality and plotted the curves of variation. He made these computations without any preconceived theory as to what he might find and studied the curves of variation which resulted. On these he discovered that certain measurements showed sufficiently great differences between regions to warrant calling them different subspecies. Study of the curves forced him to divide the species into Gorilla gorilla gorilla (Savage & Wyman) or Coast, and Gorilla gorilla beringei (Matschie) or Mountain. It happens that the first of these races is the one found...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD NATURALIST DESTROYS THEORY OF MULTIPLICITY OF THE GORILLA SPECIES | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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