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...advent of an air attack in its present form was unforeseen when our existing battleships were designed, but their anti-aircraft armament is being increased to enable them to perform their primary function...
...without the hardship and embarrassment which usually accompanies such a step. A student who was unsettled as to what field of concentration he should choose could go to the representatives of the various departments to discover the requirements, context of courses, and methods of approach to subject matter. This function would be of material assistance in working out the recently instituted quota plan for Freshmen. The constant changes in concentration, which are so numerous at present in the Junior and Sophomore classes and so detrimental both to students and departments, would be largely eliminated if the students really know what...
Maintenance of health among the students is no luxury but a necessary function where so many persons are gathered together in close contact. There is no excuse for incompetency, carelessness, or indifference on the part of those responsible for this work. It should be platitudinous to remark that an intimate relationship exists between physical well-being and academic success...
...Hearst and other Red-baiters will doubtless find in the publication of a newspaper by the Harvard National Student League further evidence that the seats of higher learning are rotten with un-Americanism. The "Student News," however, fulfills a legitimate function, defined in a remarkably calm editorial as: "to ensure adequate presentation of our activities and policies." If only as evidence that Harvard's traditional freedom of speech actually exists in a vital and elastic form, the existence of the new paper is justified...
Some Sunday Schools keep children off the streets "but for a vast number of Christian homes the Sunday movie does a more thorough job." In a large part of the world, the State has taken over the Sunday School's function of ABC-teaching. As for religious instruction, "the average Sunday School is taught by an untrained staff; its equipment is woefully meager; the curriculum is neither scientifically sound, comprehensive, nor sufficiently centred in the child's experience; the textbooks are biased in attitude and limited in scope; the pupils' attendance is haphazard, and the time spent...