Word: comee
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...from the Western cities come to Harvard as compared with the number that go to other universities, that a boy in a Western preparatory school can get very little accurate information in regard to life here. Whatever information he gets is apt to be misrepresented by some friend who is trying to persuade him to go to another university. The boy writes for a Harvard Catalogue, and in it he finds much about entrance examinations, choice of courses, and dormitories owned by the University; and little or nothing about student activities, athletics, and private dormitories. With all of these points...
...university can hope to appeal purely by academic reputation to the preparatory schools that are ignorant of the real conditions of its undergraduate life. That, of course, must play a large part; but life at Harvard means more to us than the mere study, for which primarily we have come to Cambridge. It means four years of active competition with men of our own age and tastes; competition in any one of a hundred branches of endeavor; competition that is selfish in part, but in the end binds us the more closely to the men with whom we must compete...
...Copeland will give the fourth of a series of short readings from English masterpieces in Emerson D at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon. The reading will be from "Hamlet," and will be open to all members of the University. Men are urgently requested to come promptly...
...Come and Find Me," by Elizabeth Robins...
...only way out of the difficulty is a brand new gymnasium, so situated that it would be accessible to all the teams and individuals who cared to use it, and of such dimensions that it would be adequate for the needs of the University for some time to come...