Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard, at least, the amateur spirit, in its crusading aspect, is not fiercely active. Where there is no driving force of a cause to be advanced, there must be a substitute to preserve the initiative. It may be that salaries for undergraduate executives might furnish this substitute. It is certain, at all events, that the placing of a job on a salary basis leads to a deeper sense of responsibility on the part of the incumbent...
...college have sufficient means to enable them to go through college without help. These men would be inclined to feel that it would be unfair for them to compete against men who were actually in needs of funds. Even in the absence of pure altruism, such men might use this aspect of the situation to justify a lack of initiative on their part. Work in an undergraduate activity for pay might seem detrimental to their self-respect, as savoring too much of "professionalism." These considerations would tend to eliminate from competition for high positions most of those...
...effort to remove some of the burdens of extra-curricular activities from seniors might well prove a constructive move and obviously has much to recommend it. Senior year is a crucial period scholastically, and clearly the more free seniors are from outside interests, the more opportunity they will have to study. Furthermore, from the point of view of the activities themselves, it seems quite logical to expect that juniors, if less imminently pressed by studies, may find it easier to devote to other activities the time required. Thus a general introduction of such policies might be expected to benefit both...
...same time, however, it cannot be denied that there are many practical considerations to be weighed. It is a question if the lack of experience consequent upon assuming more responsibility a year early will be made up in even the best advice. Then again the process might be found to be merely borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, overworking the junior for the sake of saving the senior. There is left, then the obvious question as to whether such a policy could be effective on a wide enough basis to benefit many. The matter should be worth serious consideration, however...
...Sunday afternoons, last year, over an 18-station web. And his new and exciting title of "radio pastor" further lost significance when it became known that Rabbi Wise also would preach, that Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick & Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, able Manhattan divines, might soon be given microphonal pulpits by the National Broadcasting Co., sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America...