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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...good as place to cultivate the spirit of world unity as a city with representatives from 33 nations among its population. And yet in neither place is there any deliberate attempt to compass that aim. It is an end missed through lack of the larger outlook upon the higher life. New Bedford Standard...
Although the millennium has not been reached, we do not believe that things have changed. The money line of distinction is no longer of great importance. Good fellowship is placed higher than a substantial check-book and an expensive motor car. Wealth still makes the path to popularity easier in certain circles, yet most of us at Harvard as well as most of us in America try to estimate men by their character rather than by their pocketbooks. We believe that "a man's a man for a' that...
...head of the University he has carried on the work begun by President Eliot, not merely as a capable administrator, but as a man of vision and foresight. Under his leadership Harvard has maintained her position among the first universities of the world, and has blazed the path to higher fields of scholarship. The war has dimmed the light of science and letters in Europe, but President Lowell has helped to keep the flame burning brightly in America. May he enjoy many birthdays as President of this University...
...action taken by the University, Yale and Princeton in broadening their entrance requirements has accomplished the desired result, for it has done away with the necessity for specialized preparatory school training. In addition, the statement comes from Princeton that the scholarship of this year's freshman class is considerably higher than that of last year, which seems to indicate that the entrance requirements have not been lowered by the change...
...University hockey squad was divided into teams which held practice games in the Arena yesterday afternoon, and Coach Winsor tried to bring some semblance of team play into the work of the men. Individually the showing of the higher ranked teams was very good but there was little united work and the passing was ragged. Team A was able to defeat team B in the first game, when after about 10 minutes of play, G. A. Percy '18 shot the puck past G. E. Abbot '17, who was at goal for team B. H. M. Bliss '17 also scored...