Word: fall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the study cards for the second half year out, undergraduate interest is focussed on courses starting with the second semester. Among those which will be most under consideration is undoubtedly Fine Arts 1d, a half course covering all phases of European Art from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West right down to the present time...
...practice was more or less a resumption of regular workouts which had been going on outdoors all Fall. All the men who reported were members of the informal Fall squad. Practice will be held there throughout the Winter, the University squad drilling on Mondays and Wednesdays, and the Freshmen on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The University schedule includes two games with Army, two with Yale, the usual Cleveland-Cincinnati trip, and the regular Armory schedule of games in the Boston league. In addition the team will play in New York around the end of March or the beginning of April...
Several suggestions have been brought forward. The idea of a university club has been rejected as unfeasible and inadequate to the task of reuniting the two groups. The proposal of building exclusively for student activities met better reception, but there was danger that it might fall in its purpose through lack of patronage, since the powerful Triangle club has removed to quarters of its own. The proposed university center is planned to combine the best features of both, in that, as the seat of activities, it will not tend to be left to the nonclubmen alone...
...afternoon hours are best adapted to Mallinckrodt and Widener, the morning to the others. Voting on two successive flays is a workable solution of this problem. The necessity for more supervisors can easily be met by increasing the membership of the Junior Polls Committees; and the result can hardly, fall to be a substantial enlargement of the total vote cast...
Harvard's $11,000,000 experiment in small-unit education, to be inaugurated next fall with 522 students in the new Dunster and Lowell houses, is holding the attention of those who think about educational progress. The New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor have already viewed the project favorably: they see desirability in splitting the huge masses of students at our great universities into more wiedly groups, at the same time retaining the skilled instruction and superior facilities of a large institution...