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...points are rightly stressed in the official announcement. The first one, concerning the placement on the application of specific reasons for preferring a certain House, deserves particular attention, for if possible, as the CRIMSON pointed out last week, no man should be kept out of a House if he has a logical and sound reason for wishing to enter it. Secondly, it is justly pointed out that Freshmen will be wise to play safe by applying in groups, so that they may be assured of the companionship of certain friends. Every effort should be made by the committee...
...policy which stresses "athletics for all." If financial stringencies point inevitably toward such a stop in order to balance the H.A.A. budget, it is time once more to demand a sane budget founded on an endowment fund made possible through strict economies and a fixed revenue realized by the placement of a standard fee on all undergraduate term bills...
...essentials of a better system in the case of Harvard, and of many other colleges, include the creation of an endowment fund made possible by strict economics, and the placement of a fixed fee on all undergraduate term bills. Intercollegiate sports can perfectly well be made to support themselves, but the present instability of the Association's budgeting system for all athletics must be reformed in order to put intramural athletics and physical recreation in general on a perpetually sound basis...
...general inferiority and inadequacy in the educational training falsities of the country. Normal schools everywhere should be jacked up if they are not to be conspicuous for their uselessness. Perhaps an ideal school for training teachers will be an impossibility for a long time to come. But the successful placement of the graduates of the Harvard Graduate School is a striking illustration of the crying need for more satisfactory schools of education...
...statement concerning the accomplishment of the Alumni Placement Bureau during the past year, J. F. Dwinnell has added much fuel to the fire of those who maintain that colleges, by a process of protective coddling, unfit their students for effective participation in a calloused world. The head of the bureau suggests that the reason for the failure to place more men in the last two graduating classes is that those men either refused to believe that conditions beyond the cloister were as bad as had been represented, or had reason to expect that the family budget would somehow permit them...