Word: helping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Then the more intellectual clubhouses might be made to rival in attractiveness the more social. why should one climb a tower to enjoy Phi Beta Kappa when he can luxuriate in the Varsity Club's happy proximity to mother earth? There is, further, the feeling that advertising will help solve the problem. The names of athletes are club house hold words; cannot something be achieved by posting the names of students with honor grades? The faculty also comes in for criticism, especially the "young and generally incompetent" assistants. The professors, it is more than hinted, might do better than give...
...Dunbar's essay, with more variety of style but less skill and general finish seeks help elsewhere. Amid random shots at present evils that dishearten the poor undergraduate, such as bad lecturing, bad prescribed reading, and that abomination the "section-man" (!), he has at least one real suggestion-something not very distantly akin to the Oxford tutorial system. Even if treasures shine from the end of the road of scholarship equal to those which beckon men to athletics (to drive home the brilliance of the metaphor), it is extremely doubtful whether many worthy undergraduates will alter their extra-curriculum activities...
...published during the summer at an expense of $1500 which must be met largely by graduate subscriptions. Notices have been sent to all the members of the Federation, urging them to subscribe for copies before Monday, May 19. If a large number is subscribed for, it will greatly help in securing an adequate response from the graduates at the Associated Harvard Clubs' meeting in St. Louis on May 22. Members of the Federation may also send to the Committee a list of names and addresses of men who are contemplating coming to Harvard. The Committee will fill these applications without...
...near future, intends to accomplish a threefold purpose: first, to write to prospective students during the summer and to establish at least a preliminary relation between strange Freshmen and men familiar with the University; second, to work at the information bureau early next year, in order to help the new men; and, third, to participate in the "fall canvass," interesting undergraduates in the work of Phillips Brooks House and the Christian Association...
...humble pennies from the generous Freshmen. The object of this Freshman philanthropy is one of the worthiest met with in a college career--it is the Senior Picnic. Let every member of 1916 come to the steps behind Memorial Hall with his pockets well filled with small change to help give the Seniors a last grand party...