Word: men
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...present, of three survey courses in Latin and Greek literatures, only one, Greek 11, the history of the Greek drama, does not require a knowledge of the language. Latin 12 and Greek 12 doubtless are commendable survey courses for those men concentrating in Classics, but they require what few undergraduates possess, an ability to translate Latin and Greek well. For at least three years the two surveys of ancient civilizations, Latin 10 and Greek 10, with reading in English, have not been given. There is a field for such courses, and if they are properly announced and organized, there...
...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...
...following men were elected as sub-chairmen on the editorial board. John Mason Bigelow of New York City. Charles Allison Butts, of Poughkeepsie, New York, Robert McConnell Hatch, of Cambridge, George Clair St. John Jr., of Wallingford. Connecticut, and Albert Pratt, of Boston...
...regretted that our dean of men's office does not co-operate with the colleges in our school, and enable or encourage students to attend lectures sponsored by the departments of history, philosophy, liberal arts...