Word: done
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...privilege for Harvard to have such a meet on her field again, in return for which we can give our rivals and guests a cordial welcome and a sportsmanlike reception. To our own men we say that, win or lose, we shall know that they have done their best...
...longer what it was "when Godfrey lead the foremost of the Franks" or when "an Englishman would rather split his ship and fall into the hands of God than into the hands of Spain." Fighting now is done with great soulless machines. There is no hope or purpose or meaning in it. "War has lost the vitality that it once had; it is a dead thing, a peril to the social body...
...report on the Social Service work done by Harvard men in the past year shows that the University still leads in the number of men engaged in this branch of collegiate endeavor. In general the nature of the work done has been the same as in former years. There has, however, been more differentiation and diversification making it possible to reach more differentiation and diversification making it possible to reach more remote conditions than when all the workers were massed on one or two problems. More intimate study of particular phases and situations has been the result: Especially significant...
...broad movement on foot among our colleges to spur men to higher scholarship. We believe that the greatest effect on the scholarship standard will be secured only when the prod is applied long before the men reach college, but we believe as firmly that a good deal can be done after they get there. If the Senior advisers, realizing as almost every Senior does that he is here to study, would seriously impress that idea upon their wards, we are confident that the result would be gratifying. Many upperclassmen can remember the respect which they had for their advisers' suggestions...
Whether, however,--quoting Newman--"the time is now surely ripe for someone to take up all modern music into one vast synthesis," may be questioned. Newman, as others have done, cites Michelangelo among great men with whom Wagner deserved to rank. It may one day be recognized that the two have not only commanding genius in common, but that they hold by no means dissimilar positions in the history of their respective arts. We look upon the exaggerations and fads in the art of the age succeeding Michelangelo with the same contemptuous pity for so much wasted talent and endeavor...