Word: good
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...food has been the same; the Liberty Bond he bought came out of a special allowance from home: and the "parties" he has gone on have been as big and vigorous as ever. He has had the comforts that men in service consider luxuries. He has had a good bed, plenty of tobacco and shower baths. The Harvard undergraduate has gone to bed every night knowing that he would probably get up safe in the morning. He has not worried about life. He has not take any risk. And, Yet he doesn't want to get up an hour earlier...
...these days, when so many gifted young men, who would normally be adding to the interest of our Cambridge life, are giving their time elsewhere to immediately practical matters of war, college papers as good as those of two or three years ago are not to be expected. But need the falling-off be so great as it is in the last Advocate? It seems to me the weakest Advocate that I have been teaching here at Harvard. Not only has it an unusual number of technical errors and of lapses in artistic taste, but its substance is thin...
...believe that so much difference between this number and various Advocates which I read in 1915 and 1916 is unnecessary. The remedy is in getting out the good literary material in the College. Every year I see some themes which are better than the majority of contributions to the College papers; but through either poor judgment of editors or indifference of writers, they never appear in the papers. Already this year in my war-shrunken class in "Composition" I have read three or four stories which seem to me better than any narrative in the present Advocate. If the fault...
...Monday seemed well on the way to join Sunday on the credit page of our lives. Two consecutive days of rest and ease made us more and more in favor of the Fuel Board. Week-end parties were planned for months in advance,--a five-day schedule appeared too good to be true. It was, and our day-dreams of this new Utopia have faded into oblivion, for Monday is to continue as of yore: a day of "liaison" between a merry week-end and a dreadful week to come...
...earlier and get up early. We admit that habits are a difficult thing to change, but we rather rely on the inherent rationality of man. There are 1,681 undergraduates in College. If only half of them realized that to get up an hour earlier and do good work meant getting to bed an hour earlier, this would mean the saving of 840 hours of light each day. We ought to admit that half of our undergraduates are rational. This also does not take into consideration the saving in the library and other buildings. College chapel will simply...