Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Oxford only the Dons, or college officers, are permitted to walk on the grass. At Harvard the "Dons" appear to be the only persons to pursue the paths. Everyone else, led on by that delightful abandon which accompanies the approach of the merry Maytime, not only ambles on the grassy edges of the lawn, but, on the way to Memorial Hall, ventures occasionally into pastures new. The result in the latter case is a fairly obvious suggestion that the Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings establish a new and convenient path. This suggestion will, doubtless, be acted upon...
Harvard has emerged from its early provincial position, and has become a centre of intellectual activities. In its path as the leader of American culture, it has come in contact with one of the greatest forms of art of our civilization. Nothing could be more pitiful and blind than for the University to bury itself in books, and pass by an institution which has a purpose so nearly akin to its own. The situation in Europe provides us with an example of what the possibilities are. If any differences exist in the possibilities here, it is that they are greater...
...innate goodness of the freshman soul, its untried, untutored purity." Although he blames the home training that has not gradually educated a boy to the use of his liberty, he accepts on the part of the college a share of the responsibility for the freshman's choosing the wrong path. College receives men potentially good, it should graduate them actively good...
...sacramental idea has been so much bound up with the life of the Christian Church that it seems quite unwarrantable to omit it and reserve the other supernatural elements. In this respect, as in the belief in the immortality of the soul, there is no middle path to choose, for Christianity defies all attempts to compromise with any of the humanitarian or ethical codes. A man is either a Christian or a non-Christian in his beliefs...
...shown illustrating the types of country through which the lecturers traveled, the different tribes of natives, and specimens of wild animals. Coolidge obtained several photographs of beasts of prey at night with a special camera which he invented for the purpose. He put a string across the animal's path and when it was touched a flashlight was set off which at the same time released the shutter on a camera, placed in an advantageous position. In this way pictures were obtained which it would have been impossible to get in the ordinary manner...