Word: helping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Major Higginson concluded by pleading with Harvard men to devote their lives to individual unselfish service. "There is nothing better in the world," he declared, "than to help our fellows." But it is best that we work for such ends as individuals: we should not ask the government to do things which we can as well do ourselves...
...Boston Chamber of Commerce is anxious to obtain college men to help solve the problem of the crowded traffic conditions in Boston. The Chamber of Commerce has been studying this for a year and a half, and had some students working for them last year...
...securing this wide publicity the Press Club needs the co-operation of newspaper correspondents. The Federation of Territorial Clubs, part of whose work is to disseminate Harvard news, has indorsed the new plan and will render it useful aid. To make this help entirely effective the students in the University who regularly send news items to various papers should get into communication with the Press Club so as to become members and to assist the publicity movement. The Press Club does not aim to establish a censorship over the public press by saying what shall be published and what...
...good elective judiciaries; but the electors do not consistently maintain the highest standards of selection, and not infrequently fail to re-election the most admirable judges. Indeed, such a tenure of judicial office disregards some of the most obvious of human qualities. A judge who desires re-election cannot help considering what effect his conduct in the court-room and his published decisions will have on his re-election. As an elected judge grows older and therefore less able to resume practice, he inevitably becomes more timorous and less independent, particularly as he cannot look forward to any pension when...
...striving after a definite end. In addition to counting as required work, their efforts will mean participation in an important branch of our undergraduate activities. At present men dash off inconsequential things merely, because some English course requires them. The plan suggested would stimulate interest in such work, and help to bring about that much desired readjustment between work academic and the much discussed outside activities...