Word: needful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...therefore, with satisfaction, that we learn that Harvard is to be among the first to appreciate the need for a new system. We wish, however, that this work of reconstructing education might not be left entirely to the Faculty. Doubtless their long experience makes it necessary for them to effect the actual changes, but it would seem that discussions of proposed reforms in which the student body is adequately represented would be very profitable. They would add another point of view: that of the younger generation; a point of view which, while less stable, is valuable because of its vigor...
...reaction against all things military produced in our minds by months of wartime service, coupled with the present diminished need of armed force, is hard for the moment to overcome. Nevertheless, the time now seems at hand for us to swing back again to a normally balanced viewpoint on the subject. In other colleges the tide is already turning toward a renewed preparedness for possible war. At Princeton men are already signing up, though slowly at first, for the Field Artillery Unit to be formed there this summer. Columbia has established a form of military department, in which Government instructors...
...April 21. The decision to carry on the work of the Hostess House came as the result of demands from University men, who, while in the service, had appreciated the value of the opportunities for social recreation given by the Red Circle, and felt that there was a similar need for it in the University...
...total number of volumes in the Loan Library is nearly 3,000. This sounds like a large number, but many, probably over half of these are out of date and the need for new books is as great as ever. The need for new books is really greater than ever, as the clothing collection last fall netted scarcely any books at all. A great deal more is expected from the collection this spring...
...college men's Y. M. C. A. conference at Northfield last spring was the smallest we have sent in some years, consisting of only eleven men, three American and eight foreign students, under the leadership of J. O. Crane '21. However, other college delegations were reduced proportionately, so we need not feel that our poor showing was exceptional...