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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...feels for the generous offer made and carried out in December. 1916? Through two strenuous and memorable years the work of General Hospital 22, the largest hospital unit serving with the British Army, has held a record for skilful and untiring treatment of our wounded. The memory of so much service and self sacrifice can ever pass from us; it will be cherished in perpetuity by the relatives and friends of those whom the Harvard Unit has tended with such admirable devotion...
...trustees of the Boston Elevated Railway Company have announced their intention of doing away with odd-cent rates. We knew they couldn't keep it up. The strain of counting the pennies is too much especially now that the war is over...
...unique position among university stage organizations, being the only college dramatic club to write, act, and produce its own plays, and the only one, with the exception of certain societies in co-educational institutions, to have women act the women roles, a policy which has brought its performances much nearer to the professional standard than is possible where men do the female parts. Membership in the club is determined by competitions, which are held in acting, business, publicity, and stage managing, scenery and costume designing, and lighting. No previous experience is necessary for candidates, some of the most successful...
...Americans, and it has long been plain to them that the world was not going back to the old conditions that prevailed before the war. Many of them have no personal sympathy with this new state of affairs or liking for the inexorable facts of the case. They would much prefer to have the world drop comfortably back into the ancient order of things and be satisfied to let well enough alone, but they realize that it cannot be, and they are not such fools as to believe that the tide of events can be swept back...
Such a program strikes to the very heart of all education and opens the way to the much contended question: What should the college seek to accomplish? Should it train the individual in special attainment or should it cultivate that elasticity of mind and broadness of outlook which distinguish the student from the artisan? In President Lowell's understanding, the development of the mind as a whole is its object, a mind sympathetic and without prejudice, which from its long practice in jumping intellectual hurdles will better adjust itself to the changing needs of the time and more easily follow...