Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...look over their wall. One of these is the Harvard Magazine, the second number of which has just appeared. At last, praise be, a single publication has ventured to invite to its columns the whole university, instructors as well as students, Radcliffe as well as Harvard, and to discuss other than purely academic interests. Therefore, it is seven times welcome, and if in so new an essay it makes mistakes--as it surely will--seventy times seven to be forgiven. Its editors can well afford to laugh (and incidentally watch their pockets bulge) at pre-adolescent lucubrations...
...quartered in the Harry Payne Whitney cottage during their short training period at Gales Ferry preceeding the Yale race this June. Definite arrangements for the regatta were recently announced at New London when the captains of the two crews together with the University managers met the Yale coaches to discuss the situation. Outside of the matter of quarters for the crews no changes were made in the program as planned in January...
...true, President Wilson in Paris has already taken Senator Root's views into account. Let us profit by the fair and reasonable position which Mr. Root has taken and above all let us detach the League scheme from personalities as completely as he has done, and try to discuss as justly and disinterestedly its merits and defects...
Seldom has a conflict of great minds, such as that which occurs in Symphony Hall tonight, taken place with no specific subject for discussion previously announced. If, as now seems likely, President Lowell and Senator Lodge intend to discuss the particular problem of the Covenant of Paris rather than the general proposition of a League of Nations, a more valuable purpose will be served. Even the opponents of the present draft admit that a league of peace, under whatever name, is theoretically desirable, and that popular opinion demands some organization for the future prevention or limitation...
...necessities of every day business are excluded from the lives of college men. They are cloistered from problems demanding instant action. To have time for study and opportunity to discuss the questions which arise in every young man's mind is invaluable to his future usefulness...