Word: closer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be interesting to observe how the recommendations of the committee appeal to graduates and undergraduates. To the Bulletin the schedule seems to be compact and especially to be commended in bringing Class Day and Commencement closer together, and in giving greater prominence to Phi Beta Kappa Day and the announcement of distinctions. The difficulty of finding a date for the race convenient to both universities will be obviated, for the day after the Harvard Commencement under this plan is only two days after the Yale Commencement...
...Cambridge Club, which is composed of the leading merchants, manufacturers, and professional men of the city, was quick to give public expression to this change of sentiment. For some time past it had wished to promote closer relations between Town and Gown, and to that end it appointed a committee, of which Mr. Henry M. Williams '85 was chairman, to confer with the Harvard authorities. At the monthly dinner of the Cambridge Club on March 20, the club had as its guests more than 40 Harvard students of the "first group," and it listened to the following report, which...
...they bring together for an evening meeting or, in the case of the larger clubs, for meals and social purposes, a number of men who have like home interests. In so far as they give pleasure to their members, the clubs justify their existence; but they might, through establishing closer relations with their home Harvard clubs, be of much greater influence in helping to make a more unified Harvard spirit throughout the country...
...Harvard clubs at present are acquainted with undergraduate life largely through the papers and the Graduates' Magazine; there is very little real unity with undergraduate interests such as might come about through a closer relation with territorial clubs in Cambridge. If there could be an undergraduate territorial club to correspond to every graduate Harvard Club, there would be a relationship established between the undergraduates and graduates from any one part of the country which would be of great advantage to both. The secretaries of the territorial clubs could inform the secretaries of the home Harvard Clubs of their members...
...that exists among the great number of different sects in this country. It is true, however, that today our educational institutions are laying very little stress on denomination, and even the churches themselves have very much more respect for one another than ever before. The work of making still closer and more potent the co-operation among the sects is one of the greatest opportunities that lies before the clergy today, and in taking advantage of this opportunity the clergy may hope to regain power to a degree which it has not known for a long time...