Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Spreads, confetti, band stands, reunions, outings, all are ready to burst forth as riotous adjuncts to the day's fun. Rumor has it that the Ivy Orator is in record-breaking form, and, while rehearsing his effusion on lonely golf-courses, far from the ear of mortal man, has even himself been rocked by unholy glee. The Glee Club, too, is reported to be in fighting trim, and straining at the leash for the evening's operations on the moonlit steps of Widener. Spreads will be spread thick in every nook and cranny of the Yard, and many will...
President Meiklejohn's suggestions can hardly be called plans as yet, but if put into practice they will go even farther than the scheme now in vogue at Harvard. It will not be enough for the Amherst undergraduate to satisfy each individual professor as to his proficiency in particular subjects. At the close of his sophomore year he will be required to demonstrate by the range of his knowledge and ability that he is getting something worth while out of the college. And before he receives his degree he will have to undergo another general test to determine whether...
...gets drunk and maltreats his family, or becomes a menace or nuisance to those with whom he comes in contact, the result, far from being liberty, is a clear infringement of the liberties of other people, as it subjects them to definite inconveniences and restraints, if not sufferings. Even the man who becomes passively drunk, quite apart from harming himself, is cheating society out of his usefulness. It is all very well to say that free government is better than good government, and that prohibition is an infringement of private liberty. But when liberty has become to a large extent...
...very opposite, namely that it would be unjust to all the well-intentioned parties to the League, if a nation that had acted from consistently selfish and reactionary motives for forty years, and had constantly broken faith with its more honest neighbors, were admitted to the League, before showing even the smallest signs of a change of heart...
...student to success are due to find themselves neglected. Their owner is busily engaged in making plans for the summer vacation in which their presence could only be discordant. It is also doubtful whether the janitor or the "goodie" will desire to brush up on "Gov", "Ec", or even "Phil." What, then, is to be done with these former companions of midnight hours...