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...that course, regardless of any privilege of anticipation, almost if it were to have been his only course at Harvard. For I have become impressed with the idea that that course is--at any rate potentially--one of the indispensable things in all the University's offering. Fundamental, a groundwork upon which a man may stand in all that he has to do here; a background for all his intellectual life. I gladly, comply with the request of THE HARVARD CRIMSON that I give reasons for my enthusiastic faith in "English...
Social conditions among the laborers are portrayed with more than average fidelity. The beauty of the play is to be found in the atmosphere of mill life that is constantly in the background, and forms the groundwork and foundation throughout the play...
...forced to wonder whether the method of award is entirely satisfactory. Entrance examinations are at best a mere indication of whether a man has the groundwork for a college education. They are in no way a test of his fitness to build on that groundwork--his character or his abstract ability to study. They have long been accepted grudgingly as a necessary evil; one of their worst faults is an incentive to study for the examinations rather than for knowledge, and this undesirable feature the Phi Beta Kappa prize would seem to emphasize...
...interest in the new Republic. While there he became connected with the Bureau of National Information and has travelled all over the country since its creation by the Peace Conference. He has made a special study of the Czecho-Slovak constitution, which is generally regarded as the groundwork of the most advanced democracy in the world. In America he is lecturing on what he considers the merits and faults of the constitution and on the general condition of the country and the people of the new nation. His treatment of its economic state should be illuminating in cleaning up doubts...
...Perrin '21 won the prize given for his drawing which was accepted by the Jury of Award as the best of the 10 handed in during the competition held last winter. The designer's idea and groundwork were excellent, but the shields as finally molded are also the result of Professor J. S. Humphrey's and Professor A. Pope's efforts, for they made a number of changes in the contour. With the exception of the individual dormitory seals, an owl for Standish, a bull's head for Gore, and the Harvard "veritas" for Smith, the design of each trophy...