Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only one-fourth of the Freshman class have signified their intention of attending the Class Dinner on April 1. It is absolutely necessary that at least four hundred come to the dinner to make it a success, and the Dinner Committee must know beforehand how many will attend. Tickets at $2 each will be on sale at the Rendenvous until 5 o'clock tomorrow. No tuxedos will be worn as it will be purely informal...
...Clubs of a pamphlet to be sent out over the country by the various clubs for the use of high school students. The publication will be of an attractive nature aiming to set forth life at Harvard and to answer those questions about which every Sub-Freshman wishes to know...
...fear that President Eliot has based his remarks about the religion of India, at any rate, upon the garbled reports of a few superficial observers. We know the good as well as the bad points in our country's intellectual development and can assert with confidence that most of the problems which Christianity likes to regard as her exclusive privileges have been long mooted and debated in India...
...Eastern nations have no conception of the brotherhood of man"--President Eliot is reported to have spoken. To be sure we have not any statute proclaiming the rights of man and the Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity of the human race. But we know what Equality and Fraternity meant and did in France, and one fails to see how mere lip-devotion to these dogmas is going to help out any society. But if Equality and Fraternity are to be a matter of deeds and not mere words, it is an open question whether one can find a people more loving...
...representatives of the West. We nevertheless welcome them. For if there are men that choose to ignore the more pressing wrongs in their own country and take the trouble to come to us and help us, we are by no means above such help. But let our missionary brothers know at least wherein they can help us. It is certainly not in the way of preaching a higher religious gospel--for they have not any for India--nor again in the way of a "Conservation of the affections of the family." For anything in the world. India would not care...