Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Undergraduates are not as a rule able to give much expression to their views on political and national subjects. It is not, however, as some critics claim, because the undergraduate possesses no such views. Representing all parts of the United States, the University should be a clearing-house of political doctrines and should approximately express national sentiment. Now is the time of postal card canvasses and straw votes. To discover the political complexity of the University the CRIMSON has arranged for a presidential ballot next Tuesday, at which students can pick the man they think should guide the nation...
...influence, nor does it mean the institution of a system of coaching whereby the head coach is to rule, as a despot, roughshod over rowing traditions or over undergraduate ideas. To those who expect or await the establishment of such a dictator to govern Harvard rowing I express an opinion that they are doomed to disappointment. There has never been encouraged in any sport that sort of control; and I hope there never will be a time when the undergraduate is to work under a system which requires of him only a mechanical performance...
What is there that makes it plainly evident that student opinion is against compulsion? Surely it cannot be the fact that no single opponent to the plan appeared before the Student Council Committee which sat for the express purpose of hearing whatever objections might be advanced against compulsion...
Adverse criticism of the Musical Review has been voiced recently by such men as the musical critic of the New York Tribune and by Mr. Francis Rogers '91, chorister of the Harvard Club of New York City. Both express the opinion that as an authority on art the Musical Review has little value. The majority of articles are contributed by undergraduates, and the views supported are the product of minds inexperienced and without breadth. A student cannot have developed any real power of discernment in music; hence his opinion can have but little weight. Music is, according to the point...
...producing music, it is necessary for him to have had the time to be a student,--to have probed to the truths of life for their own sake. This is the lesson of the college to the artist and to the musician, a desire to understand and to express life, and a firm conviction that what he is doing is worth while, whether it is recognized or not. This is the challenge which must be flung to those who are professionalizing art in this country as our business and even our sport is professionalized. And that lesson the College should...