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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Henceforth the Japanese students and the scholar from Sweden or china will feel himself to be and will be an important cog in the University machinery. Athletics, class matters, business of undergraduate importance will mean more to him. He will find a new and untouched phase of college life...
...they did dur- ing the war: Sunday dinners and suppers, dances and parties of various kinds, trips to historic points under interesting guidance, besides the use of the Hostess House itself, with its homey atmosphere, where they can read, write, play the piano or victrola, and where they will find a hostess ready to listen when they feel like talking, where they can come alone or bring their mothers and sisters or their girl friends...
...this smoker, like all others in the University, will be a business meeting as much as a social gathering. It is only at such affairs that a class can discuss matters of common interest, launch its plans, and find exactly where it stands. And if the present Senior Class, the only class which has bridged the gap from peace times to peace times, does not revive the traditions to be discussed this evening, more than one Harvard custom will be thrown into the discard because of the war. Primarily there is Class Day and Commencement Week; no other class...
Each case will be considered individually and reasonable elasticity will be employed in the cases of candidates for a "War Degree" who, not having been away the prescribed time, now find it impossible to remain at College for the completion of the regular course...
...current issue of Vanity Fair contains an article by John Jay Chapman entitled "Harvard's Plight," a renewed complaint against the composition of the Corporation. Although we were surprised to find such a weighty subject discussed in a publication which seldom enters upon academic questions, the matter is too important to be dismissed without thought or comment. Mr. Chapman declares that Harvard is run by State Street bankers and that they have caused a spirit of "commercialism" to pervade its former intellectual atmosphere...