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...startling thesis. truly. Yet Miss Glaspell wisely refrains from urging it to an extreme. She is satisfied with pointing out the justice of her case, admitting frankly that our present social and educational conditions cannot be stretched overnight to conform to all this. The conscientious objector, the "radical" professor--these our hard-headed, "sot-in-its-ways" democracy cannot at once accept into its colleges. There must be time for growth and advancement; but meanwhile it does no harm to learn our meanwhile it does no harm to learn our faults. After all, it is the old story of revolution...
...years, especially since the presidency of Charles W. Elliot, who inaugurated voluntary chapel and the now widely copied elective system, Harvard has stood for individualism among the students. It makes no attempt to establish an invariable type, either intellectual, religious, or social, to which all must conform or be rejected. Strong and hard to combat are the influences which shame individuality, in matters of thought, dress or manner. Freshman regulations tend to destroy it as well as the prevalent habit of scoffing at anything new or different. No real need of such regulations exists: in the past have not Harvard...
...lack of attention given to the proposal of Congressman Tinkham of Massachusetts that the quotas of the several states in the House of Representatives should be revised so as to conform to the Fourteenth Amendment, looks suspiciously like an attempt to dodge an issue. President Harding and his party's leaders in Congress are not anxious to hamper the growth of their political influence in the South by any obnoxious investigation of the negro disenfranchisement, prevalent in many states below the Mason-Dixon line. The South has always been extremely sensitive on this point and it is indeed expedient...
Numerous amendments to the constitution and by-laws of the organization were adopted, many being merely technical changes to conform with recent developments in athletics. The javelin and discus throws were added to the annual games program but will not take effect until the 1922 meeting. The proposal to add a five-mile run and the 440-yard hurdle race will be considered at the next annual meeting...
Essays and translations must be handed in to the Secretary of the Committee on Bowdoin Prizes, 20 University Hall, not later than April 1, 1921, and must conform to the requirements and general rules printed in the University descriptive catalogue...