Word: alumni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Occasionally an undergraduate stops to wonder how much the college will mean to him after he has left it and passed into its wilderness of alumni. And sometimes it occurs to him that when the faces in the yard have changed and the buildings seem strange and unnatural that Harvard will forget him. At those times he fears that graduates' day will be peopled with an indifferent and a disinterested student body who have forgotten him and his friends, who are careless of the traditions which he once guarded...
...will please the thoughtful undergraduate who looks beyond the dead-line of commencement, as well as his elder, the graduate, to learn of the formation of an undergraduate and graduate committee to deal with the problem of graduates' day. It is its duty to bring the alumni in direct contact with current college conditions, to make over their mental pictures of Harvard to fit the circumstances of time. It is tremendously important that Harvard be coordinated by an understanding graduate body. In the past there has been too much talk and too little comprehension...
...intelligence of this new plan is readily seen. Undergraduate speeches before returning alumni, arranged by a combined committee, can scarcely fail to ease the relations between these brothers of differing age. The college should be stronger...
There have been attempts to reform football by college Presidents who mildly or vehemently deplored the young generation and all its works. There have been attempts to reform football by young literati among the undergraduates and minorities of alumni who doubt if the game is worth its present price. Now comes an attempt to reform football by the regulars themselves. Representatives of six colleges met in Middletown on Sunday. They were neither alumni, nor Presidents, nor editors of classical monthlies with a flair for Elizabethan verse; they were, instead, the editors of undergraduate daily newspapers and the Chairmen of undergraduate...
...departments of Harvard education are now supported by endowments except athletics sufficient proof that alumni are interested in Harvard education merely as such. Why should athletics be disinherited and thrown upon their own support for existence? Science and philosophy are not so treated. Surely this distinction is made because athletics have been looked upon as not constituting an integral part of the educational process. Under the present system coaches feel constant pressure to concentrate upon a few men in order to produce winning teams. Athletics have not been general enough to justify an endowment. As Mr. Arthur Howe, former Yale...