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...United States, the mission will turn its energies to new work. Plans have been nearly completed for a new undertaking. It is expected that in May Mr. Jacob Riis will give a lecture in the Union on the present condition of the slums in New York, in order to acquaint those men who are to live in New York with some of the city's slum problems. The following men form the committee to carry on the undergraduate activities of the Harvard Mission: chairman, W. R. Ohler '10; secretary, E. T. Wentworth '09; W. S. Whittemore 4M., D. C. McCallum...
...appreciative, but he felt, as all men of large vision must feel, that much of it is too limited in purpose, and too experimental in method, to rank as yet with the highest achievements of past times. Thus in University teaching he felt that it was more important to acquaint young men with what the fine arts have been than to engage their attention extensively on the various phases of modern art which, though manifesting much that is hopeful, are more or less transient in character. CHARLES H. MOORE...
...purpose of the Social Service Committee is to acquaint students in the University with the various philanthropic enterprises in Cambridge and Boston. It aims to bring together the opportunities for philanthropic work and the men who wish to do such work, and no further obligation is required of those who engage in it than the honorable carrying out of the work they undertake. In choosing the work in which he is to engage, the student is not limited to the few activities of which he may happen to know, but the whole field of charities is open...
Coach Haughton and Captain Burr emphasized the fact that the football season had now begun, that every man should acquaint himself with next year's rules and keep up in his studies. Mr. Garcelon spoke of the necessary training, and especially recommended track work during the spring...
...determine directly the policy of the Society, tends to defeat government by public opinion, it does not tend to secure it. The mere fact that persons can carry a change of policy by inducing a hand-full of persons to come to the annual meeting makes it unnecessary to acquaint the members at large with the proposal to inaugurate a change. Men who habitually neglect to exercise their right to vote, and yet wish to enjoy the advantages of government by public opinion and in accordance with public opinion, can secure those advantages only by the act of self denial...