Word: validating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Overseer of the University attends a Wolff review, he is giving his benediction to the tutoring racket. It is bad enough that Harvard is indifferent to the evils; but it is infinitely worse when an official representative condones them. Mr. Bacon's ignorance is hardly a valid excuse. But perhaps his peccadillo did grow out of the belief that establishments like Wolff's are legitimate tutoring enterprises. There is a common attitude hereabouts that tutoring accords with accepted educational theory and practice. This attitude assumes that, while there are some vicious practices in the Square, most of the work...
...another strain of unemotional rats. His arena for testing rat emotion was a well-lighted circular enclosure about seven feet across, with a smooth linoleum floor. Since rats like nooks, crannies and darkness they found this "open field" mildly terrifying. They showed emotion by excreting. That excretion is a valid evidence of emotion is affirmed by the experiences of countless soldiers suffering extreme fear in battle, of some aviators just about to crash, by the observation of dog-owners who see their pets stop more frequently at lampposts when excited, even by the testimony of psychiatrists that...
...these proposals are well known. The more upperclassmen there are who spend only one or two years in the Houses; the harder it is to obtain House spirit. And the presence of associate members will further weaken the bonds uniting regular members. That these protests are to some degree valid is quite true. But the only question here is whether these disadvantages outweigh the advantage of extending the benefits of the system to the Out-of-Housers. Is it fair to make some three hundred men go without the privileges the rest of the college enjoys for the sake...
...nominating petitions for the second Senior Electone must be in the hands of Theodore L. Haziett Jr. '40, Winthrop K-22 by Friday. March 3. At least 25 names are required in order that a petition an be considered valid...
...implication that the Fine Arts department is concerned only with the past period of history is hardly more valid than a condemnation of the history department on the score that it still gives a course on the Renaissance. "Living significance," as the Crimson calls it, is something which cannot be taught; which it is incumbent upon the individual to develop within himself; and which may vary with the individual...