Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phillips Exeter Academy has again won the Scholarship Trophy offered by the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The competition is open to all schools of the United States which prepare not less than seven boys for college, and it is an important aspect of the plan that a competing school need not send any of its boys to Harvard...
...whatever its causes, the Nazis' chauvinism is clearly part of an emotional appeal to national pride. That aspect of the Hitler program no intelligent person could approve. If it represents the degree of a sanity in the program as a whole, then Germany is being made the victim of the rankest demagogism...
...laughing, must be greatly pleased by Mr. Wright's letter in Wednesday's CRIMSON: now even this last miracle has passed. But why should Mr. Wright resent the merriment of the clorgy at "this or that doctrine or sentiment dear to the Christian mind?" Surely everything has its humorous aspect, and if the theological structures of nineteen centuries can crumble at a smile, then the sooner we smile the better...
This year Harvard is host to the annual meeting of Presidents of prominent New England colleges. It is the purpose of this gathering to discuss informally many aspect of modern universities, and it is fit that the meeting should be at Harvard now. The whole organization of the college is in transition, but the actual physical shaping of the House Plan is present. Although only hazy ideas can be formed about particulars, the visiting presidents and professors will be able to gather a general conception of its frame. They will examine and discuss with informal freedom; and Harvard may benefit...
...that as it may, the most significant aspect of the omission of Latin concerns the cultural consequences. The gain in precision and style in writing English resulting from even an elementary classical training is too well recognized to need comment. Another result equally important but less tangible is the passing of the ideal of Bacon's "full man," who values cultural studies for their subjective richness more than practical subjects and their immediate advantages. More and more, colleges are feeling themselves accountable to their alumni for the adequacy of their gradates as wage-earners, not as well-rounded human beings...