Word: evens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...their college course to make a wise choice of a career, that choice is often made with a superficial knowledge of the nature, inducements and difficulties of the different professions. It is also based on the belief that the occupations known as professions are all equally worthy, and that even those men who think they have a clear predilection for a particular profession make a great mistake if they do not see what the others have to offer. In the choice of lecturers the Governing Board hopes to secure men of distinction in every subject--taking sometimes...
...technical understanding and resource that can be taught-that are taught, indeed, at Harvard-and he has profited by his training. Admirable and surprising in the first act is his willingness to suggest his characters as they come and go, and not particularize in minute exposition. He is willing even that they disclose themselves and imply their own backgrounds. Oftener, however, the higher technique that would have saved him from some of his confusions and changes of key, for example, and that each man must learn for himself in his chosen profession, evades him, and naturally enough. Then his theatrical...
...vote as the class, collectively speaking, would like to see. In some respects the final election is fully as important as the first, for upon its result the success of Class Day and of the future organization of the class largely depends. The situation this year calls for even a more interested vote than formerly, for not only must a committee be chosen to co-operate with the Treasurer and lead the class organization after graduation, as well as committees to assume the enormous task of managing a successful Class Day, but a permanent Secretary must be elected...
...best way to make the American people more interested in scholarship than in athletics is by proving that our prize scholars, even more than our prize athletes, represent the type of men for which there is public need. The competitions must be so arranged that the prize winners justify the selection by their subsequent life. But have our prize winners done as much for the public as it has a right to expect? That the men who have won scholastic distinction at Harvard have later won more than their proportionate share of honor in the outside world has been shown...
...sign the degrees. With a new man in office it would be impossible for President Eliot to sign them as such an act would be an infringement on the duties of his successor which the President would never consent to. It would be unwise to usurp such a function even though there was a unanimous petition in favor of it. The new president will be given every opportunity to take hold of his work and responsibilities under the most favorable conditions and it would not do to create such a situation, slight as it might be in its consequences toward...