Word: existences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voted that, since both faculty and students of Harvard College are concerned with the common problem of Harvard education, a committee of undergraduates should be appointed to study Harvard education from the students' point of view and to offer suggestions for improving such faults as might be found to exist. Accordingly a committee of ten students was appointed whose interests were sufficiently varied to make them fairly representative of the students at large. For live months the committee, has studied the question, has gathered information, has served as a clearing house for suggestions, and has come to definite conclusions. These...
...Harvard Fund is intended to operate, not for any one day or generation, but for all time. It is entirely dissociated from any idea of a "campaign" or a "drive" and should have about it nothing that is either formidable or forbidding. Its sovereign importance is that it shall exist in perpetuity to receive annually whatever a graduate may care to give. The very idea of unrestricted funds precludes any suggestion of fixed amount: There is, and will be, no quota. If the number of men contributing is satisfactorily large, the aggregate amount contributed will undoubtedly be satisfactory also...
...Harvard exist without the Lampoon? Can any faithful Harvard graduate, or even undergraduate, remain inactive while the "oldest comic" is sold? I sincerely hope not. As a former editor of the Lampoon I appeal to all true Harvard men. A fund must be raised immediately. Already I have written to the president of the Advocate. Its cooperation and that of the CRIMSON can save the Lampoon. Both publications are financially sound and I hope will consider a plan by which the Lampoon will be subsidized and enabled to publish its St. Patrick's number. But the CRIMSON and Advocate cannot...
...psychologists, phrenologists, philologists and wits will never gain even from their tall copies of her work the quintessence of her prophecy--that is dead. For open sesames exist to Italian caves and to the heart of man--but woman, and a sybyl at that will never reveal much to the learned of the world--not a woman ancient as the Cumaean lady--and such an early exponent of the old army game...
...said, "which perhaps bears a different connotation in their minds, from that which I give it here. But whatever we call it, the idea is that law in this future era will not be concerned with judging man as an isolated individual, but in relation to the society he exist...