Word: exist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...although I may not be especially well qualified to judge, I nevertheless should like to set forth my opinions, in the hope that those who disagree with them, or have more to add will not remain silent. Something certainly should be done to change this attitude which seems to exist toward Harvard, and we can not do very much until we find what the causes are. So, as the CRIMSON suggests, I think "much will be gained by their open discussion...
...recent growth of an unfavorable attitude toward Harvard at Exeter and Andover, and the low esteem, in which Harvard is held throughout the west have caused considerable comment and discussion as to why these conditions exist. The University has done much to combat the situation by modifying the entrance requirements and breaking down, by sane publicity, the barrier of misunderstanding which is keeping away many desirable students from other parts of the country. Problems that naturally arise in this connection awaken in turn a train of further questions, but may be classed in general under a variety of headings...
...music presented by the Harvard Glee Club. With all respect to Dr. Davison and the members for the splendid results achieved, we feel that the Glee Club is not a glee club but a choral society and should be named accordingly, and that a real glee club should exist to sing the college songs which most people expect and want to hear when they attend a glee club concert. We have repeatedly heard this same opinion expressed by non-Harvard people as well as by graduates, and we feel that this should be brought to the attention of the University...
Granting that these objections exist, do they justify the utter relinquishment, of our postal flying experiments? The New York-Chicago service has maintained an unprecedented regularity of flights, even under the disadvantage of severe winter conditions and in spite of the disturbing accidents which have in several instances resulted fatally. Those who are convinced that mail by airplane is foredoomed to failure point to the recent retirement of a British air mail concern from the cross-channel route on the ground that winter flying did not pay. Certainly aerial letter-carrying has not yet reached the point where...
...using the organ. In the latter instance, one may or may not get in, and one does not always feel welcome. Thus, our Chapel is idle, in so far as its prime object is concerned, twenty-three hours, or more, out of each twenty-four. This condition should not exist...