Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...congestion of population, housing reform, public water supplies, sewage disposal, street cleaning, smoke prevention, the inspection of food and milk supplies, and various allied subjects. The course will be non-technical in character, being designed to afford an acquaintance with those things which every intelligent citizen ought to know...
...major article of the Harvard Musical Review for January Mr. Sessions contributes a mature and remarkably important discussion of "Our Attitude Towards Contemporary Musical Tendencies". So impartial is Mr. Sessions that one does not quite know where to place him though there is the suspicion that he belongs to the "conservative radicals". One gathers this from the frequent emphasis upon constructive criticism for which might well he substituted "conservative radicalism" but in inverse order for it is the radical who by his receptivity to new impressions is today contributing most helpfully to the progress of the art; and the conservative...
...Rules Governing Athletic Sports at Harvard contains the following provision: "Such substitutes on the baseball and football teams, or crew, as shall be designated by the captain of the team or crew, and approved by the Graduate Treasurer, may use the letters H.A.A." So far as we know no insignia has been granted under this rule. At present the baseball or football substitute classed neither with the first team nor the second, though of more ability than the second team man who wins an "H2nd," receives no recognition; the member of the second four-oared crew, in spite of working...
...form. Football has had a hard life. But if you go back you will find baseball was decried as a dangerous game and at one time a college paper said that if the mania for this sport did not cease we should be without able-bodied men! You all know there is a side to college life outside the curriculum proper, eight hours for sleep, eight for study and eight hours left in which to do other things...
...Illustrated takes an editorial fall out of you. But the Illustrated states a forceful case against your "paternalistic Group System and Faculty advisers" to which many Harvard men will demand an answer. The reviewer heard Mr. Burton Kline '06 when he spoke on Harvard and the press and knows from experience that his statement of Harvard's professorial ill-treatment of reporters is as true as it is interesting. R. L. West '14 has given us a good deal of inside information on the training of debating teams to what he calls the "Harvard Habit of Winning Debates...