Word: affections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This removal of emphasis from the local to the national certainly must affect the alumni representation which governs Harvard. In the current Alumni Bulletin Mr. N. H. Batchelder pleads for a more inclusive delegation to comprise the Overseers. His impetus was Mr. Owen Wister's suggestion, made last year, that all the candidates be drawn from the near vicinity of Cambridge. With this Mr. Batchelder disagrees, basing his opinion on the fact that such a group would give no indication of Harvard's national character...
...more game remains on the Junior schedule, since the 1928 team will clash with the Seniors today, but the result of this game will not affect the class standing...
...suggestion and expresses considerable doubt as to the efficacy of another, while supporting the most revolutionary of the proposals in full. But even as it refuses to acknowledge the "thought that college football anywhere has been so exploited beyond all other college activities as to seriously and harmfully affect the basic educational purposes of the colleges," it puts forward four sound suggestions for football reform to be discussed at a conference of college faculties, athletic councils, and undergraduates. Of these four suggestions one is contained in the proposal of President Hopkins, that two teams of equal strength be developed...
...guilds against which they speak undoubtedly remove a certain number of persons who would otherwise buy at their local bookstore. Still, the fundamental argument, that of overemphasis on certain books at the expense of others, is correct. Advertising never improves the quality of the book however much it may affect the sales. And some irreconcilables will always be prejudiced by the fact that a jury has foreordained the success of a novel. The best reason for the maintenance of these book societies is that up to this time the selectors have been eminently well fitted for their task. The fallacy...
...part fortunate in their cast. But there is slight difference of opinion among the players. Some of them have obviously been brought up in the tradition in which Mr. Shakespeare was brought up, and play it with the gestures which distinguish that famous Shakespearean actor, Mr. Jewett, while others affect the musical comedy manner, and with a good deal of success. The chorus men wear their pink and white complexions becomingly, but their dancing does not compare with that of the girls, who recall many another road company Boston has known...