Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interested in work of this nature and desire to raise literary standards among the undergraduates should be present to give their suggestions for improvement. The discussion of the work and place of the Student Council in University life certainly concerns every Harvard man. This body is designed as the medium through which the undergraduate body voices its opinions and expresses its desires. Therefore the views given as to whether the students believe their representative is fulfilling its mission will help this organization to take advantage of any means of suggested improvement. With such subjects of general interest to be discussed...
...example, in English A, the students might be encouraged to submit stories, essays, and editorials bearing on college topics. Then after the instructors have criticized and corrected these contributions, their authors might submit them for publication. Thus the competition for undergraduate papers may be carried on through the medium of college courses, much to the benefit of the standard of work in the courses and the quality of the contributions to the papers...
...York Sun a long account of the communications which Professor Hyslop, a prominent member of the Society for Psychical Research, claims to have had from the late Professor William James. To the layman the account is fantastic and puzzling: the story of how Professor Hyslop, through the medium of a fifteen-year old boy, held conversations on several different occasions with the "spirit" of Professor James, which proved to the former's satisfaction the fulfillment of a promise made by Professor James to give him some "sign" from the "spirit world." The public has often been fooled by false mediums...
...been in finding out just what the student body wants. Opinion is very strong on the subject, but heretofore there has been no means of bringing it to a focus. At its last meeting to discuss the need of a new gymnasium, the Forum indicated its possibilities as a medium for presenting to the Student Council the most diversified phases of undergraduate opinion. The Forum tonight offers an unexcelled opportunity for comparison of opinions and for the presentation of suggestions from which we hope to see develop the solution of the perennial "Union problem." This problem, as we have said...
...organization of the Forum as a permanent institution is the outgrowth of widespread agitation for the formation of a medium through which the sentiment of the student body toward student problems might be made known. The discussion will be entirely informal, being open to the floor after a few short introductory speeches have been made. The decision reached at the end of the evening will receive serious consideration by the Student Council, and may lead to direct practical results...