Word: generals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...much comment lately by graduates who are opposed to Mr. Sunday speaking at the University. They have based their contentions on the theory that Harvard is strictly democratic and that it is not in keeping for prominent men who are pledged to one cause and not to affairs in general to speak before undergraduates...
...catalogue containing the floor and price list of the rooms with a general description of the dormitories has been published by the University and is obtainable at the Bursar's Office and from the committee in Phillips Brooks House...
Willis R. Whitney, of the class of 1890, director of the laboratory of the General Electric Company, and a member of the United States Naval Consulting Board, spoke on "Preparedness." Following this came President Maclaurin's address, which was devoted largely to the financial history of the present plant...
...Sanborn can attain to a more melodious form of verse and learn to see and express things with less straining of the senses and the English language, the artistic insight that he has shown in the general structure of "Vie de Bordeaux" may give him a place of note among contemporary poets...
Whether this can or cannot be legally done is a question which the Supreme Court is soon to decide, but whatever the outcome Harvard has given an example of disinterestedness and whole-souled devotion to the general cause of education that has few equals. At a time when there is the keenest rivalry among American universities for the largest endowments, the largest number of students, and the greatest variety of departments, Harvard has shown that she can place quality above quantity and the general interests of education ahead of those of a particular institution. It is hardly too much...