Word: carefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found at the dinner of the alumnus who is ten years out from Sever Quadrangle. Improvement, planful aspiration, avowed democratic principle--all these have a way ofturning will-o'-the wisp when the builders of the report, who are either too safely ensconced in the best clubs to care about action, or are alumni like the Princeton investigator, decide quite humanly to let it go at that. Changes in any club system seem to be a matter of maturaration within the clubs themselves, rather than any yet discovered surgery...
...would appear, perhaps, an unnecessary expenditure of time and effort for the adviser to go so thoroughly into a matter which more than half of his students will never care about anyway. But after all, it is the very least that can be done, to attempt to arouse intellectual interest and to stimulate it along channels amenable to its particular characteristics. The ninety-and nine failures on the part of the adviser will measure up small in comparison with the one success the one student who comes there interested in nothing at all, and quite able and willing, his visions...
...start sooner. If this is the beginning of the end, I am more or less ready for it. However, these adverse comments won't take away my appetite. All I ask is that they don't take away the air I fly through. I'll take care of the rest...
Since the resignation of Mr. Seymour. Harvard's official news has been taken care of by a miscellaneous collection of well meaning gentlemen with many fine qualities, included among them a Simon pure spirit of amateurism as far as the newspaper game is concerned. This week these gentlemen decided that the Corporation's decision, reached Monday, should be withheld from a rapidly curious public until Friday, in order that the Alumni Bulletin should "get" an even break...
...however, that the policy of the Japanese Government, which consists in maintaining an attitude of strict neutrality towards the contending forces, remains unchanged in every respect, and that should the course of events be such as to render the above-mentioned measure imperative, the Japanese Government will exercise due care to provide against any unfair consequences arising for either of the two opposed parties...