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...vital points may be deduced from the Tory tactics of the Physics Department. First, that Harvard is trading upon its tradition in order to progress without nurturing it; second, that the teaching function of the tutors in the field of the sciences is consciously put into the hands of rabid specialists...
...Freshman report has already expressed it, French A, the elementary course in the language, is satisfactory in its present form. However, French 1 and 2, which are generally admitted to cover the same ground, would doubtlessly function more efficiently if consolidated into one course. This new course should be divided into sections of two kinds: one for the men who after November Hours receive honor degrees, and the other for C, D, and E students. The sections made up of the honor men would stress the literary side of the language and in addition have a weekly lecture...
...TIME, March 25). Fact is, businessmen for once are willing to admit that trade can be good without getting better. Even G. O. Pundit Mark Sullivan, noting the impressive volume of corporate refundings, declared last week: "The result is that the aorta between capital and industry has begun to function. Because the reservoirs of capital are teeming, this flow, with the headway it has now acquired, may readily swell into a great business revival...
...function as reviewer to say which or what of these attitudes is good or bad. What fascinates me about them taken together is the incredible gamut of emotions which they run; I have the feeling that here is as good an occasion as any to get a composite picture of the undergraduate--or at any rate the Harvard undergraduate--of today. But the significant fact is that these diverse frames of mind can not possibly by any stretch of the imagination be combined into a coherent personality. If Mr. Bach is correct in asserting that "a social class has status...
...South Seas. The break with the Impressionistic influence of his early period, his indebtedness to Egyptian art, as well as his habits of composition are clearly represented in this work. Notwithstanding the influence that his technique has had, it was his greatest triumph to suggest that the function of art need not be to copy nature...