Word: new
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...information bureau for the benefit of new students being maintained by upper classmen in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House, will remain open every day this week from 8 o'clock until 6. Copies of all official pamphlets and catalogues will be found there, and information concerning rooms, room-mates, and board may be obtained...
...new system of compulsory athletics for Freshmen is on the verge of its first year. Rigid examinations are being arranged with view to ascertaining for what form of sport the men are fitted. All available equipment is being prepared for the use of the many members...
...making this new step, the University is carrying further its task of preparing men for the world. Hitherto, it has merely provided opportunities for physical as well as mental training, and left to the student the choice of taking them or leaving them; and some few champions of the old order decry this latest move, saying that upon the individual and not upon the College falls the stigma of an illdeveloped body. They insist that Harvard should not become a "Glorified boarding school," but should encourage individuality and discourage the "type" by allowing its students a free rein...
...verdant Freshman who enters the gates of Harvard knows just what is best for him, and that he will carry out to the letter this wisely planned schedule for his college career; which is a delightful prospect, but conceived in the clouds. It is hard to believe, with the new departmental examinations, the stress put upon "intellectual responsibility," and the liberal courses offered, that Harvard is fostering the "type" and discouraging "whatsoever things are elevated...
...assemble in New Lecture Hall...