Word: needful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hughes Club, a Taft Club, and a Democratic Club, are all making active preparations for a part in the campaign, our old stand-by the Political club is strangely inactive. Compared with previous years the club has accomplished but little this year, and now of all times when we need the advice of political leaders on questions of national and local importance, it is not rallying to the occasion. Much as some disapprove of the methods adopted, there is no doubt that this country is undergoing an unprecedented moral awakening, that lends the greatest importance to the coming campaign...
...reputation; but in no way can the younger generations be reached, except by an actual invasion by the undergraduates themselves. Their testimony on the breadth of opportunity involved in four years of life at Harvard will be heard by the younger generations, who, after all, are the ones we need most to reach...
What Harvard undergraduates need today as much as anything else is a centralized system of advisers; preferably young men in the Faculty, or even members of the graduate schools, who are familiar with Harvard life and capable of judging of the needs and possibilities of the men assigned to their care. To be most efficient the board should be large enough to give one adviser not more than ten Freshmen each year...
...innumerable opportunities for American ability of all kinds. Our government has become an industrial organization largely--a system of industrial feudalism better organized already than old military feudalism. Concentration of industrial wealth and power means added government responsibility for the protection of citizens dealing with monopolies. The government will need hereafter especially capable business minds in politics, as well as mental leaders and political thinkers of the old kind...
Practice should be started at once, as it is necessary for the dormitory relay teams to be made up soon. The three legged race and the wheelbarrow race especially need considerable practice...