Word: mays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigation of the importance of the Classics in Princeton as compared with that in several other universities, has revealed facts and suggested plans that are of particular interest to Harvard. Statistics that show both Harvard and Chicago following Princeton in proportionate numbers of concentrators in the Classics may give a slight setback to the prevalent opinion that the first two strongholds of ancient literatures, but universities are the especial American these direct results of the investigation are less significant than the project for reviving the study of antiquity by means of translations...
...authors, the student has been left to thumb his own way through the Biad and the Odyssey during the summer preceding his Senior year, and generally reaches the time of the examinations with inadequate preparation for them and no appreciation at all for the works he has studied. This may be argued back to the omnipresent evil of cramming, but the fact remains that the pretense that men are made really better rounded out by the acquaintance with ancient literature necessitated by Divisional Examinations, is pitiable...
...entirely improbable", he continued, "that President Lowell is despairing of the old system, and that he is trying to impose from above, in the shape of the House Plan, what a good fraternity ought to do of itself. He may have come to the conclusion that the college men of this generation are not intelligent or mature or serious enough to be allowed the traditional Harvard liberty, and is trying what seems to me a desperate measure to introduce from above some measure of homogeneity and continuity into college life which undoubtedly does not today exist...
Selections are also to be presented by the Yale Glee Club Quartet. The whole program will be received on the radio in the Living Room of the Harvard Union where members may hear...
...voicings of the theory that intelligent curiosity must be aroused in the student have made it almost trite and certainly wearisome. Howsoever, it is one of the Vagabond's cherished beliefs. More, it is a pillar supporting the remainder of his beliefs. For if one is not curious he may never penetrate that pleasure, enhancing circle of native vagabonds who wander in and out of classrooms supremely unaware of monitors...