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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This actual portrayal of present day facts of government is one of the greatest needs of our country. In it lies the key to our future welfare. It is because corporations are guided by experts who know the facts and have followed the course of events that they can continually outwit the force of changing officials of the government who are unacquainted with their posts and have no time to learn their duties properly. No great republic has yet been able to use experts and retain its republican government; and it remains for us to find a means of using...
...know that such a condition continues to exist. How many of us have been advised to take certain courses "because of the personality of the instructor. Professor -- is a great man and you ought to know him." But how many times in such a case do we ever approach closer than the restrictions of the lecture hall allow? The superiority of the larger universities is due to the fact that their greater resources enable them to obtain men who are at once efficient teachers and intellectual leaders. Seldom, however, do we make use of this advantage which Harvard possesses...
...primary object of speaking is to persuade. The orator is measured by his power to do this rather than by his power to please. There are two things essential to persuasion: the speaker must know what he is talking about, and he must mean what he says. Eloquence is the speech from heart to heart; a man must be moved in order to move others. If a man knows his subject and is sincere, he cannot fall to be an effective speaker. Clearness, which is a great aid to forceful speaking, aims at stating a truth so plainly that...
Exactly the reverse is true of Freshmen. The first year is the natural and logical time to meet one's fellow-classmen. At this period, before groups have become crystallized, bowing acquaintance very easily and quickly ripens into friendship. It is important that Freshmen should be able to know their classmates, even if only by sight. In many ways success or failure in forming friendships in Freshman year is likely to determine the pleasure and profit to be gained from the four years in College...
...Harvard Chapter is fortunate in holding its elections so early in the year that the members can know each other as undergraduates. In the room in Memorial Hall, granted to the society by the Corporation, and furnished by the generosity of some of the alumni, the undergraduates hold weekly dinners; a few weeks ago a similar set of dinners was instituted for recent graduates. There is an annual undergraduate dinner; and this year was instituted a larger dinner in the Union for the reception of new members. In the annual baseball game with the Yale chapter, the Harvard chapter...