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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have the benefit of the doubt; next, because they are men whose word amount those who know them is taken without question. Nor should their ignorance surprise anybody who has closely observed youth. A printed rule forbade their receiving board; probably not one of them had ever read the book of rules. If students read--and remembered--all the printed matter made accessible to them by the college office, there would be an immediate cut in the price of college administration. Year in and year out with consequences varying from embarrassment to dismissal, students get their information on vital questions...
...passed their entrance examinations with distinction is printed in the CRIMSON this morning; and it resurrects from oblivion achievement that is well worth being recorded. Formerly there was no incentive except conscience to spur a candidate on to do more than merely pass his examinations. An exceptionally good book relieved for the instructor the monotony of the reading, but brought little recognition for the writer. Now, by means of this list and the Phi Beta Kappa trophy, the spur of an honor, which is not hid under a bushel lends interest even to the ordeal of entrance examinations...
...Freshman Red Book Board will hold a banquet at 6 o'clock this evening at the Hotel Thorndike. On account of the financial success achieved by the Red Book last spring, this is expected to be the largest dinner ever held by any Red Book Board. After dinner the meeting will adjourn to the Colonial Theatre, where the business manager has succeeded in getting the entire first two rows of the orchestra for the performance of Ziegfeld's Follies. Those who have not yet secured their tickets may do so at Westmorly 46 from H. H. Silliman...
Professor Perry spoke of "Richard Henry Dana as a Man of Letters." "The popular impression of Richard Henry Dana is that he was a man of one book, 'Two Years Before the Mast.' Such impressions are not always infallible, and yet the offhand, instinctive judgment upon which they rest is usually right enough for all practical purposes. In Dana's case the popular verdict is not likely to be reversed. It is one of the ironies of literature that this son of a poet, inheriting so much that was finest in the old New England culture, a pupil of Emerson...
Richard Henry Dana was a member of one of the oldest Cambridge families. He was born in Cambridge, August 1, 1815, and received the degree of A.B. from Harvard College in 1837. In 1840 he completed his book "Two Years Before the Mast," and in 1854 he defended Anthony Burns, the fugitive slave. Dana was United States District Attorney from 1861 to 1866 and was a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College from 1865 to 1876. From 1871 to 1876 he was president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the last 35 years of his life...