Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...printed county history on that period. The Commission, as its name signifies, is interested mainly in getting together material relating to western history, although a vast deal of this material lies in the desks and attics in the "down East" States. The Commission has been very careful to make clear the point that it is not seeking to draw exceptional local material away from those points of which it is more interpretive, but is rather interested in securing typical material and that relating to the larger inter-state and national fields, such as material for the study of the development...
...object of the early season work will be to get the men into good physical condition before the river is clear of ice. Practice will consequently consists mainly of rowing on the machines and outdoor running...
...Freshman Dormitories" by Charles Merrill Rogers, Jr. He fears that they may substitute a gregarious vulgarity for that individualism which has become the consious ideal at Harvard. That individualism should be fostered at Harvard is, I think, generally agreed. But that his fears are well-grounded is not so clear. Is the present system, or lack of system, as soundly individualizing as it might be? Individualism does not, I take it, mean isolation, but rather the personal independence that comes from thoughtfulness and breadth of interest. There is reason to believe that this sort of individualism is not promoted...
That is the conclusion. What are the reasons? In the first place, Mr. Draper believes that no man can lead a business without clear and "workable ideas;" and that "the harnessing of the imagination" can best be learned in college, for in college "he who knows but cannot express what he knows is no better off than as if he did not know at all." In the second place, "college life is a life among ideals;" and business is fast learning that it is not "alone a game of outwitting and profiting" but of "benefiting the community" and individual, "morally...
...mending of the situation is easy. Personal sentiments should be set aside for the good of the College as a whole, and the advocate and the Monthly should combine. It is clear that in disunion there lies weakness. Proverbially at least, in union there is strength...