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...tests every innovation instituted in the College in the last twenty years and which will constitute particularly a criterion as to the benefits of the much discussed tutorial system, every possible means of gathering information should be seized. Consequently those whom it most interests, those whom it will most affect, should regard it as a part of their personal welfare. There is no need for mock heroics just as there is no place for the purely destructive attitude. What may be looked upon in other places as but one more corruption of the old Germanic regime of higher education...
This removal of emphasis from the local to the national certainly must affect the alumni representation which governs Harvard. In the current Alumni Bulletin Mr. N. H. Batchelder pleads for a more inclusive delegation to comprise the Overseers. His impetus was Mr. Owen Wister's suggestion, made last year, that all the candidates be drawn from the near vicinity of Cambridge. With this Mr. Batchelder disagrees, basing his opinion on the fact that such a group would give no indication of Harvard's national character...
...more game remains on the Junior schedule, since the 1928 team will clash with the Seniors today, but the result of this game will not affect the class standing...
...suggestion and expresses considerable doubt as to the efficacy of another, while supporting the most revolutionary of the proposals in full. But even as it refuses to acknowledge the "thought that college football anywhere has been so exploited beyond all other college activities as to seriously and harmfully affect the basic educational purposes of the colleges," it puts forward four sound suggestions for football reform to be discussed at a conference of college faculties, athletic councils, and undergraduates. Of these four suggestions one is contained in the proposal of President Hopkins, that two teams of equal strength be developed...
...guilds against which they speak undoubtedly remove a certain number of persons who would otherwise buy at their local bookstore. Still, the fundamental argument, that of overemphasis on certain books at the expense of others, is correct. Advertising never improves the quality of the book however much it may affect the sales. And some irreconcilables will always be prejudiced by the fact that a jury has foreordained the success of a novel. The best reason for the maintenance of these book societies is that up to this time the selectors have been eminently well fitted for their task. The fallacy...