Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...local publication is stamped with the headline "Cambridge's Only Daily Newspaper". If by a newspaper, it means one which describes a Roxbury fire and a burglary on Beacon Street, the slogan is pertinent; otherwise, the Harvard CRIMSON, founded in 1878 may present its claim...
...this interesting collection of autographs. Two other letters of historical significance is one of William of Prussia who later became the Emperor William the First of Germany and one of Catherine the Great of Russia. The note of the former is amusing in its content, asking that special provision may be made by the addressee to allow the writer's sister and aunt who are under quarantine for scarlet fever to attend a ball...
Here is a very different story from the scheme of arrangement under Faculties. Scholastic, social, athletic activity, all is bound up in the College, and it is to the smaller unit which supplies all this that the undergraduate owes whatever loyalty he may feel to an institution...
There is no kinship in the University at Harvard, as there may be at Oxford. The College undergraduate does not share a community with the Law or Business School student because they are all Harvard men. What he does share with these others is the sense of a larger community wrought by no more tangible bond than the common search for knowledge. Where Oxford is a fellowship of a number of groups, each sufficient unto itself, Harvard is a fellowship of a number of individuals, each free to make...
...requirements and administrative needs, this is about as it should be. For the short-sighted Easterner who is in danger of forgetting that education exists even beyond the Atlantic seaboard, the National Student Federation has particular importance. He who lives in a rarefied atmosphere of century-old traditions may still have to learn that sophistication is not necessarily identical with culture, and that the Hintergrund may be no more than a geographical expression...