Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Seniors may enroll with the Bureau by returning the postal cards which have been sent to them. In doing so they will assume no obligation whatever, but will simply avail themselves of the resources of the Bureau to hear of the opportunities in their communities which they can then embrace or not as they choose. The plan is an essentially practical one and should make a strong appeal to all men about to enter active life. It calls for the co-operation of all younger Harvard men whether actively interested in College social work...
...those who do not wish to go, those who do not want to borrow members' "non-transferable" tickets, and those who can not borrow tickets. We suggest a plan for helping those who can not pay ten dollars for membership, are unwilling to borrow tickets, and yet wish to hear a particular lecture. We want at the same time to levy a tax on those who do not care to "waste" ten dollars on an institution which can be of "no use" to them, who yet want to hear the lecture and are not unwilling or unable to borrow...
...becomes a member merely for the sake of the lectures, especially when it is so easy to borrow a ticket. The suggested plan would bring a considerable sum of money into the Union treasury; it would enable the deserving student to listen to lectures which he could not otherwise hear; and it would extract something from the conscienceless non-member who might otherwise borrow a ticket...
...importance of making an intelligent and far-sighted choice of courses cannot be over-emphasized. All too frequently we hear the criticism that college students obtain no lasting benefit from the four years spent in their higher education simply because they do not correlate the subjects which they elect to study. The prime object of limiting the choice of electives is to obviate this criticism by directing the student's choice properly into the different fields of learning...
...stage) that for a woman there is more chance of happiness in vice than in unmarried virtue. Incidentally one happens to know that this is false and that the author knows it also. In a review later on in the Monthly, Mr. Westcott says that we sometimes hear that "art for art's sake is decadent--whatever that means." It ought not to mean anything. As a matter of fact it does mean that the disciple of the doctrine thinks himself freed from the truth that morality has any relation to art. A pure-souled idealist like Shelley could depart...