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Although we are perhaps not yet prepared for such a radical step, the question to raised whether we should not give careful consideration to the advisability of individualizing education in Harvard College still further. Instead of laying out plans of study in terms of courses and other requirements, might it not be well to permit an able student, in consultation with his adviser and tutor, to work out a program which would conform to his own ideas as to what he wished to obtain from his field of special study...
Raising the question of whether even the new inter-departmental concentration fields might prove too much like strait-jackets for able students, he said, "Instead of laying out plans of study in terms of courses and other requirements, might it not be well to permit an able student, in consultation with his adviser and tutor, to work out a program which would conform to his own ideas as to what he wished to obtain from his field of special study...
Broberg is not a rough basketball player despite his personal foul record. Up at Hanover when he was ejected in the first half it was a question of the officials calling everything they saw and almost everything they suspected. He is a hard man to guard, and Columbia's Len will deserves credit for a brilliant bit of defensive play in limiting him to but five points as the Lions upset Coach Cowles...
...sabre team is more or less of a question mark at present, as two sabremen were lost by graduation. Tom Wright, however, is a ray of hope there, and if his teammates, Wynn Alberts, Bob Batt, and Cal Williams, measure up to him, the sabre may make the difference between a good season and an exceptional one. Tom is definitely the ace of blades as far as the sabre team is concerned, and indeed is a standout on the whole squad. Fast as lightning, he has the perfect form and timing which make his movements seem as easy and graceful...
Without any question, all matters of culture and mythology aside, these ancedotes make wonderful reading. The stories are bulging with humor, the dialect is fast moving and expressive, and the tall tales are fantastic and original. It has been held by some reviewers that the Almanacs, with all their humor, have not the literary quality ascribed to them by Howard M. Jones in his foreword to the book. Although the "lyric exuberance" of these stories might be doubted, what does seem undeniably present in these anecdotes is an outstanding amount of imagination and originality in the language and the situations...