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...squad are: R. A. Barton '25, D. W. Chapman '27, J. R. Cherry '27, S. T. Creighton '26, G. M. Kendall ocC., E. M. Littell '26, E. J. Meizdorf '26, A. H. S. Paddock '26, J. H. Perkins '27, A. F. Reel '28, W. S. Stone '26, E. G. Wesson '25, B. A. Williams...
...qualified as one of those "movers and shakers" of whom O'Shaughnessy sings. Since the publication of his recent article in the Advocate, there has been a flood of discussion and criticism which has served the useful purpose of bringing some very vital questions into the public eye. Mr. Wesson is the latest to enter the controversial lists with a short essay in the current Gad-Fly, aiming to show that there are four distinct groups at Harvard and not two as Mr. Lamont argued...
Without condemning Mr. Wesson's system of grouping, there is room for criticism on the ground that he has given undue attention to the importance of social divisions just as Mr. Lamont may perhaps have over-stressed the importance of the school background. Without a doubt both these phenomena are of the greatest importance, but after all they are merely different symptoms of the same general situation. The possibility of dividing up Harvard into small social groups and of discovering the precise school affiliations of each group is infinite...
...this is profitable since it is provocative of general discussion. But the essential problem remains--the problem of Harvard's extreme heterogeneity--a diversity which has created a College of two (or as Mr. Wesson prefers) four groups, all more or less mutually-exclusive and all contemptuous of each other's accomplishments. Academically bound to an educational system which smacks of the idea of mass production and offers no unifying force. Harvard undergraduates have formed distinct and exclusive groups among which they hesitate to intermingle for fear, perhaps, of losing caste...
...election of officers recently, the Club members elected E. G. Wesson '25, chairman of the administration committee, Sterling Dow '25, chairman of the entertainment committee, and N. E. Himes '24, member at large of the executive committee...