Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are at present in the treasury of the Sophomore class available funds amounting to $1,466.90, according to the financial report of B. Lewis '20, secretary-treasurer of 1920. Of these funds $1,000 is in the form of Liberty Bonds, of the first loan, bearing interest at 3 1-2 percent...
...date for the M. I. T. meet has not been absolutely settled, but Captain F. H. Moore '93, treasurer of the H. A. A., has approved the arrangements. There is no doubt, however, of the races being added to the schedule, which at present contains only one other date, the triangular meet with Yale and Princeton at New Haven...
...never before, we must revaluate the aims of college education. There is absolutely no justification for men to stay in college during this crisis, unless they are acquiring traits of leadership which will make their future value far outweigh their present worth...
This does not mean that we should fly to the ideal of individual development. Our present largely useless "liberal" education proceeds from our inherited tendency to justify subjects on the ground that they "develop the individual," without testing either to what end they develop or whether they really develop anything...
...believe in optimism and in an encouragement of the nation in its present cause. But we maintain that a distortion of news to inflate the spirits of the people serves no good purpose. When the outlook is dark, as it now is, it should be known, so that our energies may be redoubled. This is the people's war. It is only fair that they know which way the tide is turning. Moreover, our purpose is sincere enough not to require a misleading encouragement. We need not be patted on the back by sentimental expressions of the "nobility...