Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard is fortunately free of many of the restraints and restrictions against which Mr. Rood justly complains. Mob spirit and the dreadful "drive" are not as irresistible as in other colleges; yet even here they are all too powerful. When bitterness and reproach are hurled at the "authorities" for these and other defects it is well to remember that much of what is worst at Harvard, as in all other colleges, is caused by the materialistic philosophy of the undergraduates themselves. The student body itself tends to crush genius and exalt conformity...
...touch of the medieval is being transplanted to the Cambridge bank of the Charles river, where on Memorial Drive just above Boylston street, the Society of St. John the Evangelist is building its new monastic mission house. Eventually this new building will be the mother house of the society in this country, superceding the quarters now occupied at 33 Bowdoin street, Boston. At present, however, none of the new plant is in use except the little chapel, St. Francis' House, which for over a year has been used as the order's chapel for the University...
When cross-word puzzles, income taxes, and divorce dirt drive politics from the mind and conversation of the generality, students are not likely to fall into a fever over budgets or naval appropriations. When the present dissensions of Italy are over, and Fascist and anti-Fascist are merely terms in the back of the history books, some spectre may arise before Naples University, then calmly ruminating its academic its academic and accuse it of "suicidal indifference to politics...
...dingy little room, up one flight, at 64 Pemberton Square, Boston, are the headquarters for a new campaign to spread among the college youth of America the principles of socialism. Here the enthusiastic leaders of the Young People's Socialist League direct the educational drive which is already reaching into many colleges and high schools throughout the country...
...same tendency echoed in the academic sphere. I was struck by the excellence, the vigor and the competence with which affairs relating to the world of action are handled. I found that everyone could use a typewriter and drive an automobile. I found that drives for money were made on a vast scale and with a success undreamed of in England. I found that the applied sciences, such as medicine and engineering and agriculture, and the vocational studies, such as law. are at their best taught (and learned!) far better than anywhere in England. But when it came to what...