Word: much
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this being the last opportunity for Sophomores to make these departments of the board. The competition like the one which started in January, will last nine weeks, at the end of which time the successful candidates will be elected to the Board. This is a much shorter time than usual, candidates in former years having competed for several weeks longer. It will be different from the last in that the candidates for the editorial staffs will not be called out with those competing for the other departments. The editorial competition will start after the Easter vacation...
Harvard men, whether or not advocates of the idea of a league of nations are unquestionably interested in the discussion that is now taking place at Washington and elsewhere throughout the country on this much-mooted question indeed they should be even more immediately concerned than the present parties to the dispute with the success or failure of this project inasmuch as it is for future generations rather than for the present that any covenant of peace has its more lasting effects...
...Schenck was especially intimate with the undergraduate body, and spent much time and effort in earnest co-operation with them. As an undergraduate he had himself been president of the Advocate, and he was ever its staunch supporter throughout his connection with the University...
...excess of this quality that prevented him from gaining the scholarly reputation to which his brilliant abilities entitled him. He was really too unselfish to become a specialist, too much interested in his fellow-men to concentrate on a single field. His friends often used to remonstrate with him about this, and urged him to devote himself to productive scholarship, as the surest road to academic promotion. He would invariably admit the force of their arguments, and occasionally make an heroic effort to get started on a monograph; then some 'chore' would turn up, which others might regard...
This year the Yard has been frequently troubled by "rah! rah!" riots. Rhinehart nights with their accompaniment of broken windows and smashed furniture, have been very much in favor. On one occasion, according to reports, the members of a "rough-house" went so far as to attempt hazing Freshmen...