Word: finality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...definite availability of the faculty the Cornell plan anticipates what has been the only flaw in the Reading Period. At Harvard the tutors, who might be expected to give significance in terms of divisionals and fields of concentration to the final harvesting of a half-year's study, cannot be consulted, while the section man, often as like to the tutor as the captain to the crew of the captain's gig, keeps precarious office hours...
...readers will not be allowed wholly to forget the Reading Period; for the Jester's editorial wit once again plays around this academic innovation, and under an elaborate figure suggests the Sophoclean maxim that it is unwise to call any man happy until he has safely passed his final goal. Those who have followed Lampy's course will catch the hint that there are still a few, at any rate, who retain doubts about the success of the Harvard experiment. But the scepticism is good-humored, and the point is not pressed home...
...Final arrangements for the catering and decorating are being rushed in order to have everything ready by Tuesday night. The dancing will be in Smith Halls common and dining rooms while refreshments will be served at tables in the quadrangle...
Yesterday afternoon the third University Crew that will race in the American Henley at Philadelphia on Saturday rowed in its final seating for the first time. It entered the contest of the Senior Eights in the Harvard Invitation Regatta but did not race due to the fact that there was no other competitor. In the Junior Eights race the Freshman crew C won by two lengths from the Gore Hall crew over the mile course in the Charles River Basin...
...crew will be awarded a default in the Senior Eights event. Since the class crew race on May 3, which was won by the Sophomore A entry, Coach F. R. Sullivan '27 has been trying out various combinations for his third University eight. He did not decide on the final seating until yesterday afternoon before the oarsmen rowed. The crew will leave for Philadelphia tomorrow night to row on Saturday afternoon...