Word: kind
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Yesterday the CRIMSON pointed out what it believed were the limitations to Harvard's national character from an undergraduate' point of view. We stated that the best way to appeal to the kind of western men who will give our undergraduate community a more national scope than it now has, is by a gradual invasion of the more distant communities by the undergraduates themselves...
...into classes, teams, class dormitories, and the like, and with the whole strengthened by the presence of an untrammeled system of intercollegiate games, that each individual is given a better chance, and the "esprit de corps" of the University greatly increased. Apparently, our elders have little faith in this kind of organization. They would have each man go his way, as separate from the rest as each grain in a pile of sand...
...innocent must suffer with the guilty; but it would be better to subject the thoughtful to a useless supervision than to permit the rest to drift through College as fancy dictates. Freshmen, whose ignorance is presupposed, are assigned to advisers, who are busy men and seldom give the kind of assistance that helps a man to make a judicious choice his Sophomore year. Frequently the adviser does no more than sign the card and leave the Freshman to his fate. During the second year there is absolutely no provision for the men who will not or can not learn...
...Politics offers innumerable opportunities for American ability of all kinds. Our government has become an industrial organization largely--a system of industrial feudalism better organized already than old military feudalism. Concentration of industrial wealth and power means added government responsibility for the protection of citizens dealing with monopolies. The government will need hereafter especially capable business minds in politics, as well as mental leaders and political thinkers of the old kind...
...Anglo-Russian agreement of 1907 is the most important understanding of its kind today. It gives England the ascendency in Afghanistan and equal rights in Persia and Thibet, but it frees Russia from all frontier troubles. France is the chief gainer by it, as the quarrels between England and Russia, which Germany has in the past turned to such good account against the French interest, are now obviated, and the affairs of France on three continents are thereby greatly improved and simplified...