Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...International Council, founded in 1927, as a subsidiary of the Foreign Students Committee of the Phillips Brooks House Association, is primarily interested in helping the foreign students in becoming accustomed to the social life at Harvard: Discussion groups and entertainments have been arranged in former years for the purpose of offering foreign students opportunities for social contact...
Like everyone else the Vagabond has his moments when life is very much on the high road. For a man whose pleasures at this season are rather confined within academic bounds such attractions as today's lectures change the face of dull routine and, as they sometimes say of football, put more fun back into the game of vagabonding...
...Symphony concert in Sanders Theatre and a lecture on "English Schools Old and New" by Mr. Stephen P. Cabot in Phillips Brooks House. The Vagabond admits a keen interest in the British schools which have produced so many centuries of leadership in all the branches of public and private life. So he is faced with a difficult choice between Bach and Schumann or Eton and Winchester...
...yesterday's CRIMSON an article by a Harvard graduate and a present professor at the University of California which was reprinted in full from the "California Monthly" places the center of Harvard life in the Yard. With the advent of the House Plan and the resultant hegira toward the banks of the Charles there has arisen, and will probably continue to do so, a wailing chorus decrying the passing of ivy walls and boardwalks as the last-year men go down to the river...
...well known report on undergraduate concentration President Lowell pointed out that the emphasis should be on avocational or cultural rather than professional training. Economics gives a broad viewpoint on life when approached in a proper spirit, but it is to be feared that these figures in large part indicate at tendency toward premature vocational training which should not be encouraged...