Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Under the strain of a lengthy examination, the handwriting of many students reverts to childhood forms; even under normal conditions, others seem never to have advanced beyond the elemental, unformed state. English F takes care of the worst cases, but the kind of penmanship that "gets by" in college--though even here a disadvantage to the writer--would, in later life, lose many a man his job. When an instructor runs through a pile of blue-books or a number of weekly themes, their neatness may not receive official notice, yet no matter what the content may be, orderly writing...
Phillips Brooks House has arranged a gathering for all men who are not going away over Thanksgiving. This will be the fifth annual occasion of this kind and will begin at 6 o'clock on Thanksgiving evening. Refreshments will be served, and a special musical program will be rendered...
...want to tell of a kind act I saw done by someone of the Harvard paraders in a recent torchlight parade. I was coming home and as the parade disbanded some of them gave their torches to delighted kids. One little fellow seemed to be too small to be seen, but one student saw him and gave him his torch. Perhaps he would like it for a souvenir himself. The youngster was so pleased that he wanted to know if he could light it on Hallowe...
...service to the University through the publication of "The Harvard Volunteers in Europe." This volume is composed of letters written by Harvard men from the French and British lines, scrawled off for the most part at the front with no thought of future publication; and consequently conveying the freshest kind of pictures. The book carries with it, from Europe, boom of guns, the whirring of aeroplane motors and the signs of dying men-the whole set down in the vivid and picturesque words of young men who have seen great things...
...practical men to determine how the money available for the purpose can be spent so as to give the largest possible returns. To have good public administration we must unite our efforts and powers in the same way. We must utilize the researches of the scientific expert of every kind, physicist or chemist, physician or engineer, jurist or statistician; but we must have this work directed and organized by men who understand the conduct of business in the best sense of the word. The same spirit of co-operation is needed in order to bring our standards of public morality...