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...suggestion offered by Professor Tatlock--that tutorial assistance continue on through the Reading Periods opens a field for discussion. It is fair to say that up to this time the proposed cessation of upper-class course meetings has been looked upon by the majority of students with more or less optimistic, and unknowing, docility. Now, however, when professors and instructors are beginning to portion out generous assignments of reading and to utter vague hints concerning the ultimate examination on that reading, the three weeks following the Christmas Holidays assume a more severe and on the whole a more normal aspect...
...Many an upper-class, conservative Negro, embracing the doctrine that the white man is superior to the black, accepts Nordic standards, regrets his dusky hue, shapes his life toward proving that his soul, at least, is white or near-white. More radical Negroes, notably the younger school of Negro writers, resent the assumption of white superiority, feel that black culture is different from but on an equal plane with white, maintain that the future of the colored race lies in its proudly being as black as it is painted...
...chance to develop this or that interest because of the rigidity of the curriculum of his day, will look on this new tendency as an inspired proceeding. At least his sons will have the opportunity which he missed. They will be given the chance to concentrate, in their upper-class years, on their chosen subjects, and thus to carry away with them from college something more than a smattering of many things. We know of no more important or progressive movement in college circles today. It will cost the universities a bright new penny or two to put these...
...remembered that the Class of 1927, the first to face the higher promotion requirements, suffered rather severely from them. An unusual effort was made with the Class of 1928 to help it meet the new requirements, with the result that it made as good a record as the last class which had only the lower requirements to meet. It was felt, however, that such a careful following of the individual Freshman as was then made would not be altogether the best thing for them when they passed to the Sophomore year and began to do upper-class work; and accordingly...
...clock this afternoon, Harvard's seventy-third crew season will be launched with a meeting for all upper-class candidates in the Smith Halls Common Room. Coach E. J. Bown '96, successor to last year's University mentors, E. A. Stevens and R. A. Haines, will be the principal speaker, and will be preceeded by Captain Geoffrey Platt '27 in talking to the candidates...