Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...visit their schools is beneficial in strengthening the every weakening ties between the preparatory schools and their graduates. Although an alumni day of this kind primarily benefits the schools, the college also gains something. The fact of a large number of graduates visiting their school from one particular college, cannot help impressing the younger boys who are beginning to think of college. The presence and conversation of such a body of alumni would be an unconscious advertisement for the particular college they happened to attend. In this way the gathering of all the graduates from the many colleges...
...Union has so little actual value that the College, its proper administrator, cannot be induced to take over control...
...Union offers no advantages which cannot be supplied elsewhere: library and dining-room are superfluous; lectures can be and are given in other buildings; class meetings are so artificial and unproductive that their abolishment is highly desirable; the publications are in the course of moving to offices of their own; mass meetings, two per year, can be held in Sanders. New Lecture Hall, or Massachusetts, if necessary...
...report of the special committee of the Student Council, which investigated this question a short time ago, recommended compulsory membership as the only solution of the present difficulties. The Union holds a place in the University which cannot be filled by any other organization. With the proper support, its usefulness could be made much greater. Without support, it is only a question of time before it must close its doors. Hence the real issue is whether the Union is to continue its existence, and grow into that place which Major Higginson intended it to fill when he gave the money...
...been laid upon capitalistic representation--too few names from the academic and professional fields appear. And since there is this over-representation of the capitalists among the nominees, the probable result of the elections will be an equally unbalanced board. Such a result, while perhaps not in itself disastrous, cannot fall, in the long run, to be deleterious to the University. Harvard is not, and has never been, solely a rich man's college. The University is, above all, cosmopolitan in its character. To direct the course of study and conduct of such a body, the governing board should...