Word: maxims
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that the unavoidable gulf between the younger and the older generation has been so wisely bridged. It is to be hoped that this cognizance of the undergraduate attitude will be fostered at Harvard and throughout the country. It is only during the past two or three generations that the maxim, "Children should be seen and not heard," has been discarded as a relic of past ages. Now we are going one step farther, in recognizing that youth has a positive contribution to make, a contribution which can not be neglected...
...announcement of the University's military program for next year one fact stands preeminent,--that the Field Artillery training, wherewith Harvard is to renew her active support of the maxim "in time of peace prepare for war," is to be no path of least resistance for seekers of easy courses, but an out-and-out business proposition. Coupled with an excellent course in the theory and practice of artillery the University offers a carefully selected field of study upon which men may draw for their necessary units allied to the military work. In permitting the training to replace the usual...
...subject will frequently be dismissed with the common maxim: "You get out of your college exactly what you put into it," and undoubtedly, the student himself is, in large measure to blame for his attitude. But we are inclined to believe that the fault does not rest entirely with the undergraduate. Of course, it is inevitable that some men will take a more active interest in scholarship than others; the point is to increase the average interest, and to break down the wall which now exists between the lecture room and life...
HARVARD. BATES. Evans, c.f. 3b., Trask Emmons, s.s. 2b., Dillon Baldwin, or Bond, l.f. l.f., Maxim Jones, r.f. p., Cusick McLeod, 2b. c.f., Rice Perkins, 3b. lb., Davidson Frothingham, 1b. r.f., Woodbury Blair or Gammack, c. s.s., Talbot Horween or Hardell, e. e., Stone...
...practice of supervised study now exists for the benefit of the student and of him alone, we urge that the matter of its modification or abandonment be put to a vote of the members of the S. A. T. C. and continue or cease by their decision. The homely maxim, however old and familiar, has yet much meaning for those who are willing to heed it: "You can drive a horse to water, but you can't make him drink...