Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undergraduate squash players are now on the path towards the creation of the "Harvard topcoat" following the model of the "Harvard hat." While one carelessly throws down his hat in the dirt with the air of one authorized by tradition, he hesitates to deposit his overcoat with equal complacence upon the well-oiled floors of the University squash courts. Indeed, a hat in the last stages of dilapidation can be explained away as due to "indifference", but it is difficult with equal propriety to dismiss a soiled and much trampled-over topcoat as caused by a similar disregard for convention...
...view of this fact, it might be well to create a special legislature of antiquarians for the due consideration and care of these relics. Spirited debates might be held on such subjects as whether or not the world is flat, and the exact time of Creation as determined by an hour-glass. By this method the ordinary process of law-making should attain a rate of speed almost perceptible to the naked eye, and the Records would be made light enough for six attendants to handle with ease...
During the Sacco-Vanzetti trial this law, which gives practical power of arbitrary arrest was exercised for the purpose of obtaining witnesses and under it teachers of sciences denying the creation of the world as described in the Bible and the creation of man are liable to punishment...
Publicity of this sort is obviously unhealthy and certainly is to be discouraged. Mismanagement in cases such as these leads to the creation of a public opinion which is detrimental to all who are connected with Harvard. The Scrub Women and their two cents have been lost in the avalanche of criticism so that all that remains of the instance is that Harvard has made a terrible mistake. After the ball is ever a press release makes its appearance, carefully explaining that all is well, and optimistically presupposing that this shaft of illumination will dispel the gloom of several weeks...
...creation of the office of Consultant on Careers is the logical answer to the Student Council's recommendation made last year for a through research into the whole field of post-graduate employment. While the new bureau is an expansion of the already existing Alumni Placement and Student Employment offices, more emphasis will be laid on the problem of placing the graduate in a position for which he is suited and prepared...