Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they are entering. Particularly is this true of boys whose geographical residence or family antecedents have not brought them into contact, with Harvard man and Harvard laden. Arrived in Cambridge they may feel slightly bewildered, sometimes lost. In an atmosphere essentially strange to their past experlonee. Acclimatization to Harvard life will inevitably come of itself, especially since Harvard demands no conformity to specific standards, but it is safe to say that numerous students go through their entire four years of college without penetrating beneath the surface of that great store of past, achievements, personalities, incidents, and ideas which make...
...intangible traditions which have become the most lasting part of what the name Harvard signifies. All of this varied material--tales of the nefarious activities of the Med. Fac. society and the great Commons rebellions as well as Dean Briggs' interpretation of the part of the individual in Harvard life--is just as essential to a full understanding of the Harvard of today as of the Harvard of a century past...
...free intellectual inquiry of the past two centuries has received at last a dusty answer, its late linking with Romanistic and esthetic mysticism should shed no very tasteful fruit. Since the student rarely feels the great sorrows and trials of the bitter depths vaguely referred to as life, the support of the church can seldom rise above the low level of sustaining organ recitals before examinations. And since the crown of youth is its searching self-reliance in the matters of conduct and God, any relinquishment of that independence in emotional self-indulgence because of keen sentience of beauty...
...alone the unguarded and unlocked wealth of, say, the Federal Treasury. Told that the University had news on Monday, it is not strange that Boston's energetic papers should make some effort to beat their rivals. Not only does the Bulletin not get its "even break," but the placid life of Boston journalism is destroyed. And more serious than this, the University, though not, of course, to blame for the questionable conduct of the Traveler, American, and Transcript is put into the position of the well-meaning but somewhat unpractical bank offered as a horrible example above...
...duty of a college to make good citizens. To pick good material--not from the intellectual side alone--and to turn out graduates, benefited by their stay in College, better able to handle the problems of life successfully...