Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...students in Radcliffe College. The first number opens with a story by a Radcliffe student. All of this should bring, if there is more than a vestige of democratic ambition in Cambridge, abundant life to the Harvard Magazine, and it should mean that young writers are to have life even more abundantly...
Harvard men, whether or not advocates of the idea of a league of nations are unquestionably interested in the discussion that is now taking place at Washington and elsewhere throughout the country on this much-mooted question indeed they should be even more immediately concerned than the present parties to the dispute with the success or failure of this project inasmuch as it is for future generations rather than for the present that any covenant of peace has its more lasting effects...
...other foreign students can rarely arrange to come here with the same opportunities of securing rooms in college dormitories as American students have. The foreign student, therefore, rooms in Boston or no some side street in Cambridge, with no particular opportunity for continuous association with American students; and even boards in restaurants and private houses that provide very limited opportunities for English conversation. His religion often interferes with his attendance at Phillips Brooks House. Though the Cosmopolitan Club does all that it can for him, at the meetings of that organization he becomes acquainted with other foreign students, who often...
Then, too, the Japanese, Spanish American, Chinese, and even European students are peculiarly sensitive and retiring. Obliged to be unusually studious in their native countries, so that their minds are developed often to a pitch of intelligence and interest which would amaze native born students, they get little opportunity to exchange their ideas for what is of peculiar value to them; namely, opportunity for friendly association and converse with American students...
...Names, dates, and official titles, however essential for historic record, are likely to convey but an inadequate idea of a man's real life and work. In the present case they are even less significant than usual. The key to the characters and career of the man whom Harvard mourns today was his overflowing. human sympathy. It enabled him to vitalize everything to which he set his hand, to turn the most perfunctory and mechanical bit of drudgery into an interesting and important task. It was the source of his success as a teacher and administrator. It made...