Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...otherwise, to be friendly; the Junior Ushers may be merely reminded how much depends on them. Ushering on Class Day does not simply consist of reporting at Harvard Hall, securing a bronze badge and then spending the rest of the day seeing how many things that badge will admit to. It means first attending to the wants of the visitors and second keeping people who are not wanted out of the Yard. Those who have been here at Class Day before will realize that this is no small responsibility...
...service have left, and because of this the exercises are likely to be less widely attended than they should be. The plans for the fitting and dignified observation of Memorial Day are in the hands of the Shannon Post of the American Legion. It has been decided to admit the general public to the exercises and it is probable that it will attend in considerable number. For this reason it is all the more important that members of the University take their part in the ceremonies; it is Harvard's dead that are to be honored...
...clubs of nature lovers all have joined in the attempt to preserve the woodland of the country for future generations by the adoption of scientific methods of lumbering which in the long run would prove to be economical. The unprejudiced observer, interested in these efforts, would be forced to admit that, although some local societies have done a great deal, their activities have not reached that national scope necessary for any long-time effect...
...thinking man, after due consideration of conditions, is willing to admit that something should be done; but the prospect of a timber shortage a hundred years from now does not alarm him tremendously. Other problems that will affect him rather than his descendants claim his attention...
...this, however, is but a symptom of a larger disorder--the undue expansion of our public egos. While no two people will agree as to just what constitutes "balanced" personality, all will admit that the over-emphasis of one or more of our selves is dangerous. We, as a nation, pay too much stress on "what the public thinks" about us; we indulge too freely our inherent propensity for being in the public eye. Unfortunately, the cure is not so simple as the diagnosis. Only the wide-spread recognition of the injurious effects of too much "publicity" will result...