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According to Quimby who made the trip last year with James H. Gilbert '40, the duties of the two this summer will consist mainly of "outdoor labor," designed both to benefit the boys and to do service to the mission...
Louis' gluttony was gargantuan: Author Padover calls it "glandular." A "normal" meal for him would consist of four cutlets, a fat chicken, six eggs, a slice of ham. Sometimes he gorged himself insensible, would then mutter remorseful words of "slop-pail grossness." At decisive moments he was often too gorged...
...formal debate will consist of two eight-minute speeches, each followed by ten minutes of cross-questioning, and two five-minute rebuttals and summaries...
Almost equally bad are the mass reviews upon which the businesses of Wolff and Parker-Cramer are based. As a means to real education, these are a farce. They consist, for the most part, in skillful spotting of examinations and cramming of answers. Students emerge merely with high-lights of information--which is necessarily superficial, which they do not understand, which they have not assimilated. The most important part of study, organization of the material, is completely absent. Thus the essence of education-mastery in the methodology of thought--is taken out. Students do not think; their thinking is done...
Undergraduates who have not had more than a course and a half in American History or American literature are eligible to compete in the examination, which will consist of essays based on books selected by the candidate from Part II of the Harvard Reading List in American History. These intending to compete should consult the counselors in the Houses and the Union...