Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Arthur Woods, member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard, was Police Commissioner of New York City during the administration of Mayor Mitchel. He has manifested great interest in Harvard as Chairman of the Overseers Committee to visit Harvard College. During the World War he was overseas in the Flying Corps. After the War he was Assistant to the Secretary of War in charge of returning men to civil life...
...ultimate complexion of his college career. The truth of this statement will bcome more and more apparent to the student as he progresses through the various stages of his assimilation to the Harvard educational methods. The system of divisional examinations with its unlimited opportunities for individual effort and interest is not as a rule appreciated until the Junior or even the Senior year. And then it is often found that the student lacks the prerequisite requirements for the attainmnt of his newly appointed goal, which is more and more taking the shape of the honors degree...
...taught, it must be made open and accessible. This logical corollary, not at first fully perceived by business men, with their jealous traditions of secrecy, was of necessity emphasized, though with caution, by the new collegiate business schools. But business men themselves were beginning to realize that their individual interest coincided with that of larger social groups and were gradually becoming more willing to share their knowledge. Trade associations were proliferating and they were busy in formulating codes of ethics. Business men were enjoying in the United States the esteem and respect paid to a high social class. These...
...completion of the new gymnasium near at hand providing vastly increased facilities for undergraduate indoor sports, a backward glance draws attention to the disposition of the old Hemenway gymnasium. For although this building has been obviously inadequate to the demand, there are numerous opportunities for use, of primary interest to the great body of graduate students, whose heritage in part it will soon become...
...Progressive artists throughout the East have long given up hope for modernity in the Metropolitan. Few of them ever visit its vaults. Scathingly they view it only as a trysting place for shopgirls and their beaux, a shelter for nurse-girls and babies on rainy days, a "point of interest" for out-of-towners. It is the only official museum of art in New York City. Last week art circles were stirred by news that Manhattan is to have a U. S. Luxembourg.* Spurred by the fact that in Cleveland, The Hague, Rotterdam, Worcester and all great art-conscious cities...