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...which has as its purpose the splitting up of the undergraduate body, with the exception of the Freshmen, into a number of small social groups or "houses." Harvard realizes the fact that large institutions of our country trail far behind the smaller ones in their ability to stimulate social contact and "college spirit" in its full meaning. The project now under way calls for an expenditure of $13,000,000, the gift of Edward S. Harkness of New York City, to take the form of a group of self-contained buildings, each with its own sleeping, living and dining facilities...
...lice are almost unknown in Alabama, although head lice are found occasionally in school children. Lice apparently are not responsible for Montgomery typhus. In places further south the health officers found cases popping up in isolated places, without traceable association with a previous case and without subsequent secondary or contact cases. So people have not been infecting other people...
...fundamental aim the encouragement of intellectual activity and the increase of intellectual power among its students. Its social structure should be planned or altered with this underlying intellectual purpose in mind. The House plan, as it is at present conceived, obviously will tend to throw students into contact with all types of their associates. It may even succeed in giving them a certain social breadth which they would not obtain under any other system; though here one well may doubt if the stubbornly dissimilar social elements of which Harvard is composed can be fused even in an especially prepared crucible...
...decided he should get into aviation and he did. He made contact with Vincent J. Burnelli, 34, Texas-born plane designer, who calculated that he could design a monoplane's fuselage so that it would help in the flying lift...
...University extra-curriculum activities. A new inter-house athletic system and certainly a good amount of inter-house rivalry in other departments will come to take their place, or at any rate be added to them. Inter-class distinctions will be lessened; and there will be a closer contact with the Instructors and tutors who live in the new Houses. The individual will receive more attention, and social distinctions will be materially lessened...