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TRANSCRIPT PUTS GREENOUGH IN CLASS WITH TUTANKHAMEN

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"All this has been said to every generation of students since Tutankhamen went to school," said an editorial in the Transcript yesterday, commenting on Dean Greenough's talk before the Society of Harvard Dames on Thursday, in which he said that "clubs, girls, and tutoring schools" were the cause of college failures.

"In their own form of development," continues the Transcript editorial, "probably the students of ancient Egypt, and certainly those of Greece and Rome were troubled and occasionally thwarted by the same influences.... The fact simply remains that the school, in sober and eternal reality, exists to train for high competence only about one person in a hundred."

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