Word: lasting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interest, even though they may not be either congenitally or congenially interesting. Among the few groups that are resting easy in a serene consciousness of good work well done, with not much more to do, is the fraternity or the sorority, of those who feel that they have at last helped to make the colleges safe for the young man. That a college is a wild and wicked place, and that of all colleges Harvard has been for years the wildest and wickedest, has been a fond belief in some of the dryest circles in the country. Days of profligacy...
...Luvien Levy-Bruhl, exchange professor to the University from the University of Paris, arrived in the United States last week and will give two courses beginning the first half of the year. M. Levy-Bruhl is a well-known French contemporary, philosopher, and the author of "The Idea of Responsibility," "History of Modern Philosophy in France," and "Philosophy of Auguste Comte." He was born in 1857 and until assuming his position at the University of Paris was professor in lycees at Poltiers, Amiens, and Louis-legrand...
...figure of fifty-five men is larger than that of the first meeting of the last Freshman squad, 1921, when only twenty-eight men reported at the first call, but is considerably smaller than the squad of seventy-eight which reported for the first year eleven in the fall of 1916, the last regular football year...
...points on taking men out and general interference work, using a dummy and straw in one corner of the field. After that the backs caught punts, which gave them especially useful practice in handling a wet pig-skin. Meanwhile there was charging practice for the linesmen. For the last forty minutes of the afternoon the teams ran through signals. The usual scrimmage was omitted on account of the rain...
Although studies cannot on any account be neglected, especially at first, one of the very last ways of getting into touch with the College is to stick to one's books too consistently. Some few always go to the "activity" extreme, others to the scholastic. But it is a well-established fact that the solid majority of each class at Harvard proves thoroughly capable of riding both horses at once, and doing it well. In fact, the maintenance of a constant balance between these two phases of college life is the truest criterion of a successful all-around college career...