Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House Plan has brought together men from different fields, but casual conversation, with its tendency to stay on the surface, does not produce the intellectual clash, and consequent examination of fundamentals, which ought to make the Houses vital intellectual influences as well as superior eating clubs. The plan for House forums is an ideal one; its realization would be difficult. But the prize is worth all the effort which can go toward attaining...
...plan is to offer a chance for the undergraduate to meet and know older men, stimulating intellectually as well as socially. The plan of inviting visiting celebrities will help to accomplish this aim. But there are within the university many professors whose acquaintance would be delightful and valuable. A casual contact with some of these could be followed up and become a friendship of lasting value. Professor Williams in speaking at Adams and Winthrop Houses has started a tradition which it would be well to continue. If the Houses are to develop along the best lines they might well...
...Iron Man of former days would be shocked to look into the practice field some afternoon in early October and see the apparently casual way that practice is going on. He would be still more shocked to perceive the evident enjoyment that the players are getting out of the afternoon session; but whatever his personal feelings, he would be unable to deny the efficacy of the system...
...libraries are to become an integral part of the houses, they must make adequate answer to the demands of the times. Old books must be discarded and new books must be obtained. To leave this task to the casual donor whose interest is usually sentimental and whose gifts are occasional is a mistake. Either a permanent endowment for all the houses is necessary; or the University must create a yearly fund for each house sufficient to meet the demands of the ever changing tutorial reading lists...
...room exists, there is no possibility for the realization of this project. There is the excellent Amy Lowell collection of first editions and manuscripts. But these are behind glass or within a steel vault, and therefore, beyond the reach of the casual reader. The Henry Wadsworth Long-fellow library of American poetry consists of all the debris of Victorian poetic effort. Of the modern poetic output on the shelves, whatever is worth reading is so hidden in the mass of exercises in versification, that it evades all discovery. Beyond this there are also two sets of the novels of Scott...