Word: needful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reverend A. F. Hickey opened the symposium with a short address in which he emphasized the need of religion in education. "The dominant human hunger is for truth," he said, "and the basic truth is the existance of God. The appreciation of the existance is the start of human joys." He concluded in saying that religion and education should always work together...
...House of the Interpreter" is what Dean Sperry termed Phillips Brooks House in his talk to the graduate students gathered at the annual reception in October. He well interpreted the aim of the Graduate Schools Society. Its entire program of activities is arranged to meet the various needs and desires of graduate students at Harvard. Little opportunity for any social life together is possible for graduate students. The Graduates Schools Society attempts partially to meet this need...
...Agriculture, "that if the population of the United States continues to increase for more than another century as it has during the past century, there is no means by which the present standard of living can be maintained, except by importation of foodstuffs from other lands,--which will need their foodstuffs even more than we. And looking forward 200 or 300 years, which is a shorter span of time than that elapsed since the settlements of Jamestown and Plymouth, it seems necessary to recognize not only a stationary population in this country, but also throughout the world. Whether this stationary...
Herbert C. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, told the Yale Daily News that he saw no immediate need for the creation of a Secretary of Eduation, that the President's Cabinet is already too large for efficiency...
DIVOTS-P. G. Wodehouse-Dorem ($2.50). The Oldest Member still sits by the first tee watching people drive off and remembering- remembering so voluminously that he has to attach himself to his victims' coattails and drag them down to get an audience. Glad to say, the reader needs dragging down less than ever. The sharp sound of splitting wood and the dejected back of the vicar plodding homeward remind the Oldest Member of young Chester Meredith, ah yes, poor chap. . . . and so he relates how Chester came within a chip shot of not crashing the course record, simply through...