Word: existed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...industrial dispites, in particular, this tendency has been apparent. A strike may sometimes be excusable; violence can never be excused. As contrasted with some other countries, we have been too apt to see great emergencies where none exist, and to resort to gun-play before there is any need...
...Senior Advisor system, as now practiced in the University, has proved of undoubted value, and has been of much benefit to Freshmen. Nevertheless, certain faults exist; and until these are removed, it is useless to hope for the best results...
...tradition that the venerable Hasty Pudding Club at Harvard started with the two-fold object of enabling its members to consume mush and milk, and discuss the problems of the day. The Harvard Union formed in 1831 was a debating club not essentially different from the clubs which exist in practically all schools and colleges of today. The position of debating as an adjunct to the college curriculum was thus early recognized, but debating as a contest is of much more recent growth. Intercollegiate debating in America probably owes its beginning to the fact that after several years' negotiations...
...beginning of a healthy undergraduate interest in the affairs of the race, and in a discussion of its problems. But the University has also its right to share in our attention the matter of class elections is only one phase. There is no reason why the two cannot exist together. By all means let us continue to share in the problems of the outside world; but in doing so, let us not forget these problems which lie at our door...
...Middle Atlantic States will be present, and it is but natural that at a conference like Silver Bay one comes into contact and into competition with those whose ideas on some subjects are entirely different from their own. If there is any truth in the charge that there exists at Harvard a feeling that the college body which comes together at Cambridge from all parts of the country, and even of foreign countries, is sufficient unto itself, and does not need the broadening influence of contact with men from other colleges, Harvard men should be ready to defend their ideas...