Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Talk has been current lately as to what share the alumni should have in the direction of a university. An article in the last Graduates Magazine traced "the growth of non-resident government" at Harvard, while a recent contributor to the New Republic denounced the tendency of graduates to exert too much unintelligent influence over an institution's affairs, which they are able to control on account of their financial responsibilities. Such charges are of course ill-considered: if any group of men is fitted, both by character and by first-hand knowledge, to serve a university...
...from the rest of the world." To us our great strength "for the general welfare of mankind is out sincere purpose." We can't for reasons best known to the Senate, do anything in connection with the League of Nations, to make an end of war, but we can exert ourselves against narcotics. We can't lift a hand to prevent Armenians and Greeks from being massacred, but we can throw ourselves into the struggle to save cattle. When the churches and philanthropists find fault with the Administration, its answer is ready and complete. Only see what we are doing...
...lower half of the draw R. J. Kunkel 1L. defeated Louis Bondi '25 6-0, 6-4. As he was not obliged to exert himself in this match, it is impossible to say how powerful a factor he will be in the semi-finals...
...never in its history has the world been more in need of such thinking than it is now. By now I do not mean only during the next half a dozen years, but during the period when the men who are now graduating will be in a position to exert their influence in the fullest measure. Civilization cannot be independent of the material instruments of which it makes use, and the increase in man's control, and ability to apply, the forces of nature has been greater during the last hundred years than in any preceding twenty centuries...
Besides the better known parts of the University there are several departments which exert a very wide influence. The University Extension each year conducts hundreds of lectures in districts about Boston and does a great deal towards bringing education to the door of even the poorest man. The Summer School performs the same function when for six weeks in the vacation, school teachers and others who are unable to pursue their studies during the winter months have an opportunity to take courses in specialized fields relating to the work