Word: done
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year 279 men have been enlisted in some form of social work. A large number of these men, about 130, are engaged in teaching foreigners and workingmen and leading boys' clubs in Cambridge; the remainder are working under the settlement houses in Boston. The scope of the work done by these volunteers is very wide, ranging from teaching elementary subjects, such as English, mathematics, and civics, to leading groups of boys who are interested in athletics, music, dramatics or scouting. Many of the workers are engaged in some special form of social service. For example, 13 men are doing Juvenile...
Whether this can or cannot be legally done is a question which the Supreme Court is soon to decide, but whatever the outcome Harvard has given an example of disinterestedness and whole-souled devotion to the general cause of education that has few equals. At a time when there is the keenest rivalry among American universities for the largest endowments, the largest number of students, and the greatest variety of departments, Harvard has shown that she can place quality above quantity and the general interests of education ahead of those of a particular institution. It is hardly too much...
...they intend to live in the Yard next year. Juniors and all men whose last year in College will be 1917-18 should at once from groups of not more than 12 men. The larger groups will be given the preference in the allotment of rooms, which will be done...
...work. The choice of a month of leisure or a month of preparation has now come to every man. Even the most slothful blessed with an average college man's intelligence may yet retrieve himself by diligent work. Almost without exception men will decide to do as they have done, the diligent will increase their diligence, the idlers will sleep. For the latter, hopeless as the warning is, it is well to advise that the mills of the gods, however slow, grind exceeding small...
Grace George, a theatrical star who has done much to encourage dramatic progress in colleges, plans to pay Boston a visit. She will begin an engagement at the Plymouth Theatre directly after vacation, her first performance being on New Year's night. Miss George will bring with her her Playhouse Company, with which she appeared in repertoire in New York all last season, and will present for her opening play Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara...