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Rarely a day passes during one's college career--especially during the later years--without one's hearing a complaint as to the workings of Harvard occasionally accompanied by some suggestion of reform. Some of the more widely recognized grievances are from time to time discussed in these columns; some are hinted at in Lampy's more serious moments; but most of them pass unheeded and are generally forgotten. Viewed in this light, perhaps no part of the questionnaire issued by the 1922 class Committee is more important than question number 27 and the blank pages...
...Quincy House raid had absolutely nothing to do with the removal of Harold D. Wilson, Prohibition Enforcement Officer. The only complaint in that raid is made by Wilson against a man named Kearn, Wilson claiming that Kearn's residence at the Quincy House was not legal, and hence he had no right to keep liquor there. The courts will decide the matter in due time and find Kearn guilty or not guilty. The guests at the banquet in the same hotel the night of the raid was neither guilty of any crime nor charged with any crime...
...report, published today, shows that carefully planned intelligence tests are not to be scorned. The fact that they have proved remarkably accurate gauges of the mental ability of Business School students, suggests that they might prove of equal value in testing fitness for entrance to College. The great complaint against ordinary scholastic examinations has been that they do not test a man's capacity for learning, but only the amount of learning he may have already stored up. Clearly, the results of a psychological test, if applied with discretion, are a closer estimate of intrinsic mental power, which, after...
...with Princeton and Yale at the close of the season it has been the habit to keep out of the games with other colleges some, or in many cases all of the members of the first eleven, playing in fact a second team. This has been a source of complaint. To arrange a match with another college and then not put on the field our regular team, but an eleven composed of substitutes, has been criticised as unsportsmanly; and yet what else can be done if to play in these games is almost certain to cripple some members...
That the work of handling applications and distributing tickets be so systematized as to eliminate causes for personal complaint on the part of applicants for tickets...