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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...days of class rushes, cane fights and similar barbarisms are gone by for Harvard undergraduates, for which profound thanks are due. What little excuse there remained for the rush has been absolutely done away with in recent years by the presence of persistent and vicious outsiders who monopolized a large share of the proceedings. For those men in 1912 who have not yet become acquainted with our ways of conducting affairs, and for certain restless elements in the Sophomore class, who can present not even a plea of ignorance, let it be said that the first Monday of College...
...task before it is a big one. It will take a large amount of pressure to correct certain of the tendencies which it is proposed to alter and it will not be done in a day. An innovation such as this will require no little time to arrive at the most effective working basis, and the results must be considered accordingly. The encouragement received from the Athletic Committee will be of great assistance in the early months, but eventually the Council will work into its own particular relations with undergraduate life. There is no reason why they should not prove...
...have so graduated, or show in some way a sufficient degree of education. For this purpose applicants who have not already taken a collegiate course at the Lowell Institute will be required to fill out blanks stating their name, age, schooling, the kind and extent of reading they have done, and other facts that will make it possible to determine their qualifications to proceed. If the Institute is satisfied of the applicant's proficiency, a ticket of admission to the course will be sent...
...object of this work will be two-fold, first, to teach the students from practical experience and observation the elements of business that cannot be taught in the class-room, and secondly, to bring them in contact with the men with whom their life work is to be done. Incidentally the summer work will be useful in accustoming every student to the rough work and routine through which, if at all, his university training may enable him to rise. The School does not pretend to graduate men who will begin at the top or high up in their several lines...
...innovations were inaugurated during the past year: the Sophomore class substituted a pop night in the Living Room for the customary class dinner, and the Juniors held their class dinner there instead of in Boston as former classes have done. Both of these events were very successful and should be precedents which succeeding classes will adopt with even greater success...