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There has been rioting in the streets before. There have been tax quarrels and American Legion disturbances. But never yet in three centuries of Harvard have relations with Cambridge been in such an awful state of collapse. The current ruction has its background in the refusal of President Conant to give the city a hundred thousand dollar financial crutch. The action of the piece, however, is the unhappy participation of Harvard students in the memorial services at Weeks Bridge. As a result of this, there are signs of a storm...
Several innovations have been made by the 1939 Board in the book. For the first time the cover will have a Harvard scene as the background on the cover. Although the book will be approximately the same size as that of a year ago, new features have been included. Outstanding is an article on education at Harvard during the past four years. Greater length will be given to a stories on sports and the Houses...
...proposal that the five "area" courses be made compulsory in place of the present distribution requirements will be a strong dose for those students with definite occupational proclivities. The proposal will be criticized for forcing the postponement of specialization until the final two years, until after the broad "area" background has been nailed in place. This is flying in the face of Dean Hanford's policy of providing tutorial and a certain amount of specialization for some talented men as early as their first year of college. It calls for the reduction or abolition of freedom of electives--the ideal...
...that the Japanese are his friends. Part of the magnificent, $1,250,000 Tokyo Embassy which the U. S. Government completed in 1931 is a cluster of three tiny tea houses where Ambassador and Mrs. Grew can make the touchiest Japanese patriot feel at home. Mrs. Grew has the background for it: her grandfather was that Commodore Perry who once opened Japan to the western world in 1853; her father was a teacher in Japan, and she was born there...
What the N. Y. A. can offer in practical experience, the Undergraduate Faculty offers in theory. Practical experience in Radio Servicing, for instance, gets the high school graduate his first job. For advancement to Radio Engineering, however, he must have a theoretical background--Math, Physics, Chemistry--and it is courses like these that the Undergraduate Faculty can supply. A new responsibility has come to face each college. With his potential knowledge the student can take an active part in boosting the high school graduate a few rungs higher on his vocational ladder...