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...authorize course reductions for their tutees. The objection has formerly been raised that the Freshman Class is too large to allow tutoring but this group would be small enough to enable administration of the plan, it would have an exceptionally small mortality, and it would be more intellectually select than the undimensioned mob which now inhabits the Yard...
...course, even if none of these secondary effects were produced, the mere fact of having a regular Western contingent in college, and a very select group at that, helps against too great provincialism. Also, in spite of the probably correct opinion of the scholars that Harvard is not yet a National Institution, they agree that they "get a lot out of it", and enjoy it besides. These goods are directly and immediately produced by the new scholarship policy. But without the indirect effects of advertisement, the good to Harvard as an institution ends with the influence on twenty scholars...
...dispatch a trainload of players, coaches, rubbers, managers, bandsmen on the long, expensive trip to Pasadena for the publicity and profit of playing in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Named by the Pacific Coast Conference week before to represent the West, Stanford was not to select its Eastern opponent until this week. But the regiment of sportswriters and radio commentators that converged on Fort Worth, Tex. last week to see Southern Methodist play Texas Christian felt sure that the winner of this, perhaps the season's most spectacular game, would get Stanford...
...purpose of this second annual voice recording, according to Professor Packard, is to develop a standard of correctness and pleasingness of diction." Though great strides forward were made last year to further his belief that the "Harvard accent" comes merely from a select group of private schools, whose men occupy the prominent positions in the class, Mr. Packard hopes to prove it conclusively this year...
...will ask us now, 'Don't you want any Olympic Games in a Nazi state. We answer yes, as a matter of fact, we consider them due to international propaganda reasons as necessary.' The only difference will be that no private clubs or associations will select the team in the name of Germany.... The state will name the teams...