Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Many complaints have been made against both place," said Henry Penny-packer '88. Chairman of the Committee on Admissions at Harvard when questioned concerning the proposed changes. "The comprehensive plan in particular is criticized because of its extreme difficulty, and we hope to secure some arrangement whereby the two methods may be consolidated...
...universities have received a certain amount of criticism in the past. One often hears that the very numbers of Rhodes Scholars at Oxford is a handicap to the individuals--that they can never really belong to the true Oxford, and conversely that foreign students in American colleges can never hope to get the benefit from their college years that American students receive. But the make-up of the Harvard Law School places every man on an equal footing. There is a minimum of social distinction, and an equal opportunity lies before native and foreigner alike. The fortunate combination of unexcelled...
...feel certain," he said, "that this Harvard team has one great game in its system, and it wouldn't surprise me to find that it can rise twice to the heights. If it has only one really great game, I hope that it will come against Yale, but you can rest assured that the line and the backs will do a fine job against Michigan...
...situation is not devoid of hope. Even while the language requirements remain as they are, more thought given to them before entering college should do much toward reducing some of these over-weighted courses. And as concerns those taken for distribution, more independence in choosing courses, coupled with the raising of the general average of competency in the section-men, will tend somewhat to overcome the disadvantage of being a mere seat-number in the eyes of the instructor...
...this record of their ideas and ideals, their doubts and convictions, their theories and experiences. They have unrolled a prospect wide and various across these one hundred and sixty pages, and they have adorned them with truth, as they found it, and with beauty, as they saw it. Their hope is that they may lull you into flattering agreement or sting you into critical dissent." Contributors noted: Editor Henry Hazlitt, Literary Editor of the New York Evening Sun; Psychologist Joseph Jastrow; Financier Matthew S. Sloan. President of the New York Edison Co. Fat was the fledgling Century (160 pages...