Word: old
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...usually respectable editorial columns of our old friend and contemporary. The Harvard Advocate, a policy has lately been developed which does not seem worthy of a Harvard publication. In entire disinterestedness we do not think it right for a paper which aims to represent, in some degree at least, the best undergraduate opinion as well as the best undergraduate literary ability at Harvard, to embark on a red-hot campaign of bitter personal invective against the President, no matter who he may be, of these United States. Whatever he has done or left undone, no American critic seriously doubts that...
...University has been very good in placing this part of Widener Library at our disposal, and I must say that Cambridge and the College as a whole has contributed most generously to the organization. I find the box for old magazines in Harvard Square one of the best sources of securing material, for a visit to it nearly always is bound to result in a 'haul'. I also wish to thank most warmly the entire staff of the Widener Library for the invaluable aid they have given me since this office was established...
...form of literature which they wish to contribute, should leave it with him, or in case the bulk is of sufficient size, a call will be sent for it upon proper notification. It is pointed out that in giving up rooms and cleaning things out for the summer, many old books and periodicals will turn to light, which other wise would be wasted...
Plans for the Legion as outlined show that it is to be essentially democratic and non-partisan. It must not become a second Grand Army of the Republic, interested only in politics and old soldiers' rights. The real aim must be constructive; it must perpetuate a purpose which will grow even after the men who fought in the Great War are dead. We must not allow the great moral principles for which America went into the war, and which have not received their due recognition at the peace conference, to be forgotten. And any nation-wide organization which...
Next month the Seniors will celebrate the first true commencement since that of June, 1916. Many of the old practices are happily,--and unfortunately done away with. The Seniors no longer dance around the Class Tree, the Ivy Orator has nothing to do with the planting of vines; the ugliest man in the class is no longer presented with a jack knife. We trust, however, that the spirit is much the same today in the University as it was in the College of a century...