Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pierian Sodality Orchestra will close its season with a joint concert with the Harvard Alumni Orchestra at Sanders Theater tonight at 8.15 o'clock. This is the first time these orchestras have played together. The Alumni Orchestra was organized a year ago with Jacques Hoffman of the Boston Symphony as conductor...
...statement was made by President Lowell before the alumni on Graduates' Day that the success of a university should be measured by the way its undergraduates think. He pointed to the recent report of the Student Council Committee on Education as just such a standard, and one by which he was willing that his administration should be judged. A similar feather in his hat, of smaller significance, perhaps, and a plume of different hue, is the Gadfly which appears this morning. For not only is it a careful and diligent attempt to cope with problems of imminent import...
...following article by Professor S. E. Morison '08 on the Student Council Committee's suggestion that Harvard be sub-divided into a number of smaller colleges appears in the current number of the Alumni Bulletin. Professor Morison returned last fall from Oxford where he had been for three and a half years as an exchange professor in history. In the article printed in part below he attacks the idea of dividing Harvard into smaller colleges on the Oxford plan, showing from his first hand knowledge of the two institutions how this step would be impractical and undesirable...
Although the metropolitan press has in some instances read into the reports of the Officers and Committees of the Associated Harvard Clubs, issued as a supplement to the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin, various and sundry sensational meanings, there is no reason to understand these reports as other than same and satisfying commentaries on the activities of the University. For none can find any gross departure from the level of understanding and appreciative critical of existing conditions, criticism in which there is much of praise and little if any blame...
What blame there is, if one wishes to attach that name to the criticisms of over emphasis on indifference, centers on the laisser faire policy of certain undergraduates and alumni toward men now enlisted in the preparatory schools. There is evidently a feeling that more effort on the part of the Associated Clubs might help Harvard to obtain a more representative group of students...