Word: exist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only is this "new" policy far from new, but furthermore it is doubtful whether paternalism at Harvard is an absolute evil. A liberal tradition is all very well; but it implies a general degree of maturity in the students considerably higher than that which we know to exist now. Far too many men enter college as "prep. school" students, and far too many remain such for two and three years, to render advisable an entirely liberal attitude towards them. And if a certain degree of paternalism is effective in maturing these men, it does not on the other hand work...
Reports are continually coming to the College police concerning cases of stealing, in which the losses vary from one to several hundred dollars. That such a situation should exist in Cambridge at the present time is not surprising: a wave of robbery has affected every university and college in the country. As most of the crooks resort to exceedingly clever methods in playing their trade, it will be very difficult to stop the stealing unless the students cooperate with the College police...
...idea that merely making striking illegal and appealing to the public spirit of the workers in any way settles the permanent problem. Our economic structure is becoming more and more complex; more and more industries are becoming public service industries in which the right to strike does not exist. An equivalent for this former right must be found, and found speedily. Unless we can settle the labor problem in a rational way, the problem is more than likely to be answered for us on an entirely irrational basis...
...appearance of life on the Earth led to the question: is there life on other planets? Life can only exist under favorable circumstances and is dependent upon temperature, atmospheric conditions, oxygen, and water. Dr. Shapley pointed out that if life does exist on other planets in our solar system, it must be of a very different nature...
Last Monday night Dr. Shapley described the various types of astronomical bodies that exist in space and the methods used in determining their immense distances. Some recent photographs were thrown upon the screen showing great stretches of dark nebulae crowding the Milky...