Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Class hockey has been given up because of the uncertainty of good ice, but the touch football plan will be used instead and a series of informal pick-up teams will have opportunity to use their abilities, good, bad, and in different, toward the common goal of joy in the sport, or sport for sport's sake. And the introduction of this sport is, after all, the fundamental reason for and justification of intramural sports. There are many negative remedies for commercialism in intercollegiate athletics, but probably none by them possess the tonic qualities of a successfully applied "athletics...
This evening at 6.45 o'clock Juan Bobadilla of Chile will speak on the topic, "Latin America" in the Standish Hall Common Room. The meeting this evening is the fourth and concluding meeting of a series of talks on "Internationalism" held under the auspices of the Harvard Mission. Mr. Bobadilla secured his early education at a Mission School in Chile, and by great efforts succeeded in coming to the United States in 1921 to complete his education. At the present time he is taking a premedical course at Brown University, and is spending part of his time as an instructor...
...farm better today than we did when I was a boy but not as much better as we ought to. ... There is one feature, however, about farm life in America which is seldom, if ever, referred to. ... I refer to the appearance of carelessness and neglect which is so common on our farms. It has always been so; it was so when I was a boy; it is so still. Sometimes I think it is even worse now than was the case 50 years ago. I refer to such things as leaving wagons and farm machinery out in the fields...
...there arrived last week from London three potent officials of the Diamond Trust: Lieutenant Colonel Solomon Barnato Joel, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer and Sir Abe Bailey. Proceeding to the Ministry of Mines and Industries these gentlemen figuratively rent their garments. Cried millionaire Solomon B. Joel piteously: "Diamonds will become as common as artificial pearls if the present unrestricted output from 'independent' alluvial diggings continues. . . . Something must be done to alter the present situation. Why, the alluvial diggers are now actually selling more diamonds than the great producers! ... If this continues a collapse in the industry which provides the South...
...first duty of the committees will be to elect chairmen. They will attend to the subscription of magazines for the Common Rooms, see that they are kept in order, and arrange for smokers and other social functions, which will take place in the dormitories throughout the year...