Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...official cars leave Harvard square for Otis Wharf. At 9.15, the Griswold clears her dock for shores unknown, unseen. At Fort Andrew's pleasant pier unship in rank array! A short stroll down the wood-path then brings our travellers to the Field of Jubilee. Ball games, swimming, diving, blind-fold dory and obstacle races, tugs of war and deep-sea tilting, wrestling, rowing and a hundred and seventeen absolutely new sports will occupy the time till lunch at 12.31 and repeat...
...undergraduates of Harvard are still blind to the true position of the Dramatic Club. By their indifference to its performances they have not only bitten off their own noses, but they have denied their support to one of the most significant movements that has been started at Harvard during the last decade...
...interest themselves in current problems, and Harvard men certainly know nothing about Socialism as a rule. Our most important reason for considering it, however, is that it seems to us that the danger of the movement lies only in the glamor that surrounds it. If this were removed the blind enthusiasm of the fanatic would fade into nothing, and the blind opposition of the conservative would die a natural death. Accordingly we welcome this publicity that Socialism has been striving for lately at the University, as in no way an alarming symptom of radicalism, but merely as the necessary step...
Harvard has emerged from its early provincial position, and has become a centre of intellectual activities. In its path as the leader of American culture, it has come in contact with one of the greatest forms of art of our civilization. Nothing could be more pitiful and blind than for the University to bury itself in books, and pass by an institution which has a purpose so nearly akin to its own. The situation in Europe provides us with an example of what the possibilities are. If any differences exist in the possibilities here, it is that they are greater...
...view which the Northerner and Southerner can hold together, that can inspire patriotism and at the same time not awaken partisan feeling. Without such a course an ignorance flourishes which not only shuts men from an interesting topic of conversation, but also dulls their patriotism, and may allow blind prejudices to exist...