Word: failings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Surely such a situation cannot continue. If Mr. Burleson refuses to intervene, the telephone companies, or President Wilson himself may have to take action. If all expedients fail, we still have one reliable agency for serving the needs of the population. If necessary the Commonwealth can and will operate the telephones of the state indefinitely as a police measure. We hope, however, that no such drastic action will be necessary, because those responsible have failed to put a stop to an intolerable situation...
There is, at Harvard, much need for change. The average undergraduate, takes too little interest in his courses. This is undoubtedly his own fault to a large extent, but the courses and the system underlying them are also responsible. Students fail to link up their outside interests--even the intellectual ones--with their lectures. Some men have far too many activities to be able to digest them; others do not know what to do with their time. The proposed division of activities at Yale, which is outlined on another page, shows an effort to establish a balance...
...which properly belongs to everyone in the United States who has been in the military or naval service whether he has been overseas or whether his duties have kept him here. The Association must represent the private equally with the general. If this is not done the Association will fail to create the Influence it is intended to have...
...tame, too common-place for words. The frantic mobs in the streets of Moscow cannot compare to the lunch hour at Jimmie's. The pools of blood in the public squares at Patrograd are nothing to one familiar with Harvard Square slush. Even the wildest extremes of Bolshevik art fail to stir those of us who have gazed upon Memorial Hall. On the whole, the case for Bolshevism has thus far been presented in an unfavorable light. Now, however, the Hasty Pudding seeks to portray for us the glamor and charm of Bolshevism, while tactfully avoiding the unpleasant technicalities...
...years have elapsed since President Eliot, after forty years of active leadership of Harvard University, became President Emeritus. The third college generation since his retirement is nearing its completion; hence, it is natural that the undergraduate of the present day should fail to appreciate the full significance of the changes which President Eliot wrought in the University...