Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Garden Street, Opposite Common Rev. Prescott Evarts, Minister Morning Service...
...interior of the building. Furthermore, the membership fee has been reduced from ten to five dollars in order to put it within reach of all members of the University. It is expected that the funds put into the Union by the College will serve to make it a common meeting ground for all Harvard men in Cambridge. One of the important functions of the club will be to draw together the College and the Graduate Schools. To this end a number of rooms for students of the Business School have been fitted up on the third floor...
...situation confronting the country is very serious. In no other way can the common sense of the American people show its power to better advantage than in turning the full force of public opinion against such attempts by one element to dominate. If the outcome of this struggle is the passage of a law making a strike of public officials illegal, a great victory for representative government will have been...
...morals of the population and three manufacture should be forbidden. But the bad effects of beer and light wines are very slight. These good effects consist in making a great number of people contented. On narrow dogmatic moral grounds absolute prohibition is right. On those of expediency and common sense absolute prohibition is wrong, and should not be tolerated to go into effect July 1. Were the country given a few months delay such a movement against prohibition would arise that the dry legislation would have to be repealed...
...statement in regard to athletic proselytism which appears on the preceding page, and which has been jointly adopted by the athletic authorities of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, deserves the careful attention of every alumnus, undergraduate, and friend of these three universities. The fact that they have publicly adopted a common policy in this matter is in itself a most encouraging sign of the times. The statement has been phrased with the utmost care, and no one should be in any doubt about its real meaning. The evil to which it refers, however, is too subtle to be effectively dealt with...