Word: commonnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After dinner in Adams House the 24 Senior members of the Harvard chapter and four or five Faculty guests adjourned to the Upper Common room where election took place under the chairmanship of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, first marshal of the chapter...
When one looks closely at the idea of personal subordination, at this "adhesive comradeship," he sees that not for any lifetime can personality be sacrificed unselfishly for the common good. It is an ideal, elusive and momentary like the touch of spring wind. For that reason it is a greater prize than individual Immortality. Happiest of all, it can be experienced during life. But the more distant is a goal, the more chance that less will reach it. Will the Soulless Age come to disbelieve in Immortality by an inability to achieve it through Work, and thereby generate moral...
William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History, will speak tonight on the present general European situation. The talk will be held at 7:30 o'clock in the Upper Common Room of Adams House and will follow the weekly House dinner...
Frederick W. Jerome '38 and Morris G. Manker '38, who suffered fractured skulls when the car which Manker was driving crashed into a repair truck on Massachusetts Avenue near Cambridge Common early yesterday morning, have been under treatment at the Massachusetts General Hospital through the night. Jerome has been on the danger list since three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Manker's condition is reported as fair...
Objections have been raised that this "fringe" of associate members would constitute a threat to House unity. But the common feeling which does exist is nurtured mainly in the dining hall, the meeting place of all entries. And it is precisely here that the associate members, as individuals, would make up an integral part of the house unit. To advertise the House plan about the country, and at the same time bar a fifth of the Sophomore Class from the Houses is a misrepresentation and unfair to those not accepted. To adopt some sort of associate plan seems almost...