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...other colleges. But the proposal of the Territorial Clubs embodies a new idea. Whereas exchanges are seen by few but the editors of other papers, the new plan will place the Harvard publications within reach of all the students in secondary schools, so that those interested may secure accurate, first-hand information regarding the life and the opportunities which Harvard offers. In this way, it will be possible to some extent to counteract the influence of inaccurate and distorted news of Harvard life that is often printing in the daily papers throughout the country. To rectify popular impressions of Harvard...
Students interested in social service should remember that the Social Service Conference to be held at Brooks House this evening will afford an unusually good opportunity to get first-hand information concerning social evils and their alleviation from persons who have devoted their whole time and attention to the work. Harvard men have never been lacking in enthusiasm for social service; such a conference as this, offering as it does an opportunity for criticism by professional social workers, cannot fail to be of material aid in showing them how to apply that enthusiasm to best advantage...
...service in case of war. This training, if it is possible to arrange a satisfactory plan, would be useful to the individual, and it would also be a patriotic method of preparing one's self to serve the country in time of need. It would, furthermore, afford a first-hand knowledge of the Navy and its preparedness...
...more brilliant significance. Among the more superior musical talent that an orchestra of a high standard draws from the versatile life of this University, the ordinary Harvard student who has in some way acquired an interest for the understanding of music, can here find opportunity for gaining a first-hand, knowledge of what an orchestra means...
...principal duty of the holder during the year of eleven months is the carrying through of a first-hand practical inquiry into some live question which is at the time pressing for solution in the city. It always means using a great variety of methods and mixing among a great variety of people. This inquiry is carried on under, the joint direction of the department of Economics and of the senior residents of the Settlement. In the second place, the holder of the fellowship devotes a substantial fraction of his time to certain phases of the distinctive work...