Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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These exercises have attained a time honored significance from which no one desires to be excluded. And yet the disruption of the class has prevented many men from being graduated this year, as well as made it impossible for others even to return to College. In extending the privilege of Class Day to all men who ever laid claim to 1919, the Seniors have recognized these facts. Men who technically are not rated as Seniors, and yet at any time have been associated with them officially are urged to be present. The older men grow, the more they appreciate class...
Patriotism, common sense, and even selfish interests, all combine to demand that every man shall do his utmost toward bringing about immediately such world-sweeping activities as to create work for every man and woman willing to work. MANUFACTUBERS RECORD...
...attention of the westerner to eastern colleges is of the utmost importance. It gathers men together from all parts of the country at an age when friendships are made and habits formed which last throughout life. There is no denying that sectionalism exists today, even though it is not the belligerent type of '61. This bringing together of college men who will afterwards lead their communities will do away with prejudices and establish instead a feeling of appreciation and understanding...
...assurance that others understand. Harvard needs the southerner and westerner. Unless she is to dwindle into a local university she must recruit more of her sons from the great regions beyond New England. They bring a new point of view which stimulates her own. Perhaps to an even greater degree, the West and South need Harvard. To encourage this intercourse, no new machinery is necessary. All that is needed is energy on the part of the Harvard Clubs. These clubs should not be mere self-sustaining friendship circles. They should be advance agents for a house that has the finest...
...Theodore Roosevelt, shot while making a speech in Milwaukee in the presidential campaign of 1912, insisted on finishing what he had to say. Premier Clemenceau, barely escaping from death's door has announced to Secretary Lansing that he will attend the Council of the Great Powers on Tuesday. Not even a bullet could stop the tremendous energy of the great American and the great Frenchman...