Word: minding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...student organizations we must admit that the special functions which the Union once fulfilled are now to a large extent better fulfilled elsewhere. The CRIMSON has moved to more adequate quarters in a building of its own. The Reading Rooms in Widener Library naturally present themselves to one's mind before the Reading Room in the Union. As a gathering place for out of town students and for occasional class meetings it scarcely justifies itself. Some new function for it should be discovered...
...settlement of disputes. International Government is bound to grow slowly and to encounter every degree of hesitation and scepticism. The League of Nations at the present time means nothing more than the admission that there is a common good in the world and that we must evolve a common mind and purpose for its continuous achievement. The action required to that end will differ as the problems we encounter differ. The fundamental thing is a willingness on the part of statesmen to confront them in a spirit of co-operation
...most of the plans and practices of the Faculty we are prepared to submit without question, recognizing their superior wisdom in matters connected with the academic life of the University. But it is always well to bear in mind that "the best will sometimes fail" and the judgment of our superiors is by no means to be accepted in every case as infallible...
...selection, and the same advantages of participation, as he would find, relatively, in his academic work. He may not row on the first crew any more than he would get all A's--but as fear of missing this latter honor does not deter him from developing his mind, so there seems no reason for him to hesitate to develop his body because it may never bring him an "H". "The fault, dear Brutus," lies not in our athletic system, but in ourselves...
When the constitutions of the various classes of Harvard College were constructed their makers had in mind, above all else, the fact that in elections and in other class activities each undergraduate should be able to not only have a vote, but also a voice. Their aim was to avoid the possibility of the suppression by any group of any candidates for office who were desired by a considerable portion of a class and to insure the election of men representative of the entire class. In order to accomplish this, especially in the Senior class, the method of nomination...