Word: bearings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...change from the usual requirements has been made this year in that the length of the poem need not be restricted to 50 lines. All manuscript must bear an assumed name and must be accompanied by a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer and superscribed with the assumed name. The competition is only open to undergraduates of Harvard College. All manuscripts should be left at University 4, at the office of the Secretary of the Faculty, by 5 P. M., April...
...momentous experiment. One of the great weaknesses of our democracy is that our views, as a nation, are not organized. Certain groups, like the Chambers of Commerce, the American Legion, the Non-Partisan League, and the American Federation of Labor, occasionally carry on agitation and bring pressure to bear in order to influence legislation. And government in America has been defined as the result of the pressure of these organized opinions on the Central Legislative Body. But the great mass of American sentiment remains unorganized, and expresses itself only through admittedly inadequate mediums--individual communications, mass meetings called for special...
...first move to eradicate it must come from us. If some little notice on our part were given to the West, such as taking the trouble to send a football team on a long tour, the West will not be slow in response. Such action could not bear the stigma of propaganda. It would be no more than healthy community interest...
...Symphony concerts, both those given in Boston and at the Sanders Theatre, have generated a love for good music in the lives of innumerable alumni and undergraduates. There is little doubt that music is going to bear an increasingly more and more important part in bringing together all classes of our mixed community in bonds of mutual sympathy and toleration; Major Higginson will always bear an immortal crown for having been a pioneer in its development...
...remarks before the Policemen's Union, nor do we believe his presence there good taste. But we feel equally that any attack on the right of any member of the Faculty to say what he wants is to be resented. The Transcript is attempting to bring pressure to bear on Harvard to remove one of its instructors by stirring up parents "from Maine to California." We venture an opinion that these same parents place more trust in Harvard University than in the remarks of the Boston Transcript...