Word: linked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is, at Harvard, much need for change. The average undergraduate, takes too little interest in his courses. This is undoubtedly his own fault to a large extent, but the courses and the system underlying them are also responsible. Students fail to link up their outside interests--even the intellectual ones--with their lectures. Some men have far too many activities to be able to digest them; others do not know what to do with their time. The proposed division of activities at Yale, which is outlined on another page, shows an effort to establish a balance...
...wish to one and all of our fellow-workers in the war a safe return from the scenes of their labors. They have added lustre even to the fame of Harvard; and have forged a new and enduring link in the bonds of loyal regard by which we shall ever be united. Believe me, My dear Mr. President, ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR...
...from the Lieutenant-Governor of the state suggesting that a resolution be introduced in Congress to change the name of the Panama Canal to the Roosevelt Canal in commemoration of the late Theodore Roosevelt. The idea of such a memorial is excellent; as the Governor expresses it is "to link together for all time the name of this great American leader with the great American contribution to the world...
Would it contradict the spirit in which the building was erected to propose that it should form a social link between the students and their instructors? Complaint has been constantly made that the relations between Faculty and undergraduates have not been sufficiently close. Could not the Union be used to improve these relations? This suggestion, however, we make in passing. The point is that something must be done to reconstruct an institution which has been and could still become an agent of much good in the community...
...held very frequently. Although this council is intended to be superior to the Cabinet, in that it coordinated the activity of the secretaries with that of the specially-appointed regulators such as Mr. Hoover and Dr. Garfield, yet it will not interfere with the regulation itself. As a connecting link between the Chief Executive and his assistants, it will relieve one of much difficult, management, and unify the efforts of the others...