Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...constitution. The anti-League senators who are now touring the country are just as firmly convinced that the people do not. Both parties are deceived by the fact that only those who sympathize with their views, attend their mass meetings. But if debates were made common practice statesmen could get a much better idea of the sentiment of the nation...
...time-honored custom and will be lived up to this year. Owing to the confused classification, a list of "Seniors" is posted in University Hall. The contract for caps and gowns has been awarded to Cotrell and Leonard Co., of Albany, N. Y. All Seniors are requested to get measured at the Harvard Co-operative immediately and to leave an order for a gown. Until April 15th the price of a complete cut fit is $7.25. After April 15th the price is $7.75. Caps and gowns may be rented through the Coop for $3.00 for the period from...
...Overseers--with its entertaining cartoon--deals with an engrossing topic. Everywhere increases in salaries for teachers are being talked of. Now come undergraduates to the rescue. Among the conclusions that no wise man will fail to draw are that students are after all somewhat interested in the training they get, and that the cruel undergraduate, though he may ride an instructor to death in the classroom, is human enough not to want the poor fellow's children to die in a garret. The last paragraph is perhaps out of place. "At Oxford," said the immortal master of Balliol, "not even...
Then, too, the Japanese, Spanish American, Chinese, and even European students are peculiarly sensitive and retiring. Obliged to be unusually studious in their native countries, so that their minds are developed often to a pitch of intelligence and interest which would amaze native born students, they get little opportunity to exchange their ideas for what is of peculiar value to them; namely, opportunity for friendly association and converse with American students...
...concentrate on a single field. His friends often used to remonstrate with him about this, and urged him to devote himself to productive scholarship, as the surest road to academic promotion. He would invariably admit the force of their arguments, and occasionally make an heroic effort to get started on a monograph; then some 'chore' would turn up, which others might regard as a burden to get rid of, but in which he would discern an opportunity for important service,-and the book or article would be set aside, and the job that was immediately necessary performed in its stead...