Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Some daring innovator conceived the idea of throwing tooth-picks in bunches. This was quickly taken up by a score of imitators, although it was somewhat frowned upon by the members of the old school. There was the usual number of reckless persons who did not hesitate to throw ice and butter, while some favored napkins soaked in water. The firing of mashed potatoes and chocolate cream pie was rare but effective. One man dared to swing the catsup bottle round his head, but was deterred by his companions before this project could be put into execution. The evening...
This process of training of course gives no idea as to the capabilities of the candidates in team work, but it does give Lander a chance to size up their individual values and weaknesses, and helps materially in finding out how much material he will have in the spring. He has discovered some good men who have not been out before as university candidates and says that the team will start out in 1917 with better chances for development than it had a year ago. He expects to have 50 men then, all with a good chance to make...
...Chevalier believes-that it is of the utmost importance to young Americans to realize that this country cannot hold aloof from its share in the great questions of the world. In his opinion the best way in which to acquire this international idea is by travel and abode in foreign countries. There are too many Harvard men settled in Boston and New England; "should one toss a biscuit into the crowd on a Boston street, the chances are almost even that it will strike a Harvard man." All these men are not needed here and should not be concentrated...
...other poetical contributions are on more convential lines. Some are marred by metrical defects, and some by vagueness of idea, but all make pleasant reading, and there is occasionally a flash of unusual felicity. One particularly happy feature is the timeliness of most of them...
...Moore's "The Religious Thought of the Greeks from Homer to the Triumph of Christianity" deals primarily with the genetic development of the higher phases of religion and discusses ancient morality, Roman religion, Oriental cults and early Christianity. Another addition to the Harvard Theological Studies is "The Pauline Idea of Faith in its Relation to Jewish and Hellenistic," by Professor W. H. P. Hatch '98, of the General Theological Seminary...