Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dropped and consider. It is too easy to shriek accusations at the box score in the Sunday papers, and to criticize over a dinner table. Few men stop to think that it is the undergraduate body as a whole that is responsible for a team; if a better nine cannot be produced it is because the College has not the collective ability to furnish it, and to back it. And to back it! There lies the root of the present trouble...
...Seniors from 9 until 1 o'clock daily. This applies only to those who are attending classes, conferences, or other academic activities in Cambridge. All the Caps and Gowns that have been ordered have arrived and may be obtained at the Co-operative Society. For those who feel they cannot stand the expense of getting a Cap and Gown, a limited number are available at Phillips Brooks House and may be obtained there free of charge. Those who have not yet ordered them may still do so at the Co-operative and obtain them within two or three days...
...great teaching which attracts men to the college and which impels students to seek scholastic attainment. The greatest difficulty Harvard now faces is the lack of funds; professors have been asked to accept positions here, in some cases, for $2,000 less than they were getting. Such a situation cannot but keep able men from coming here...
...main need of the University is for financial backing. A Corporation composed of men of sound business judgment can do more good than a Corporation composed of intellectuals, who though admirable judges of scholars, cannot offer them a sufficient salary to induce them to devote their energies to Harvard...
...Taft's visit to the University will offer us an opportunity that cannot be disregarded. The former president of the United States has agreed to lecture here on The League of Nations, the subject that for this country overshadows completely all the other issues of the day. For many centuries, idealists have been giving their lives to ensure lasting peace, but none of them have succeeded. The new Covenant may be faulty, but it may, if properly drawn up, abolish the curse of war. If it is worth anything at all, it is inestimably valuable to every country and citizen...