Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Enforcement. "It is the most serious issue before our people. . . . I have appointed a commission. . . . I am confident it will make a notable contribution." Major Hoover commissions now functioning?6; new Hoover commissions called for in his message?...
...there is so little positive data from which to predict. Nevertheless it appears certain that the new system, once instituted, will have an immediate and important effect on all the undergraduate social organizations at Harvard. It seems everyone is agreed that the outlook for the fraternities and clubs is serious, not to say alarming. It would be desirable to know what attitude the administration will adopt towards the existence of so many organizations, and what steps will be taken to guarantee these organizations an opportunity to continue to function and exist...
...been at work doing original plays and plays new to America or to Boston. For many years overshadowed by Professor Baker's 47 Workshop, of late it must be recognized as the only organization at Harvard that takes the slightest interest in the drama. Its work has always been serious, often extraordinarily fine, and occasionally important. In the Harvard of today, where there seems so little interest in and encouragement of literature, on the part of either undergraduates or authorities, the Dramatic Club deserves attention and patronage
...success of this project depends on the machinery which is evolved to run it, If the instructor is adequate and the course is sufficiently non-professional to permit undergraduates with serious dramatic intentions to participate, then it certainly justifies its existence. One of the chief difficulties with the Forty Seven Workshop was that it absorbed too much of the time of those engaged in working for it so that it finally took on the appearance of a professional school in an undergraduate institution. The new school plans to confine itself chiefly to graduates who would have more time...
There is a serious deficiency in the administration of books reserved on the open shelves in the Main Reading Room of Widener Library. These books may be taken out Saturday evening and not returned until Monday morning. Such an arrangement is quite admirable from the standpoint of abstract liberality, but is necessarily harmful in frequent instances where examinations are held early in the week, and one student has control for two days of several books important in the course. Probably this situation arises rather from the neglect of the individual instructors than from inefficiency in the Reading Room itself...