Word: old
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Since commenting last week upon the Alumni Days of Yale and Princeton, our attention has been called to the fact that a year ago, the Harvard Divinity School Alumni Association celebrated, on its own initiative, precisely such a day at Cambridge. A good old name for it was revived in 'Visitation Day.' Under this title it will be celebrated again this year, on February 17. If other branches of the University take up the idea, can they improve upon the name of 'Visitation...
...undergraduate clubs and activities by dinners, or, in the case of athletics, by the games. The plan of the Divinity School takes him back to the regular work of his college course. While it is improbable that a very large percentage of men would have time to attend "Old Grad" days, enough would undoubtedly do so to make the idea worth trying. It is up to some class to start...
During the past football season a white flag with a red "H" was sustituted for the regular crimson banner, but by this spring it is hoped that the old banner will be brought out again...
...mental, ideal. This ideal our colleges must make clear and tempting to the minds of their students. And now we come to the weakness of disciplinarians--that it is not they at all but rather the idealists who are truly able to inculcate ideals, to tempt men, old or young, toward the shining vision of liberated intelligence which is the goal of all real education.-- Boston Transcript...
...old boys" were at the hockey game with Yale Saturday, and the "old boys" helped the University to a victory. It is true that the men of 1914 were comparatively young old boys; but they had the right idea. Their spirited support was just what was needed to give Harvard the crucial "break" and the game...