Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time parked it in front of the CRIMSON building from which vantage point it pumped water on all the editors who were on the balcony. This however is the only time that the engine ever-pumped water after its purchase by the Lampoon. All that remains at present of Lampy's fire chariot is one of the leather buckets and the fire bell which now repose in the Lampoon building...
...considers a college generation as it extends over the four years of the undergraduate curriculum, a tradition that has extended over 30 years assumes a much more venerable aspect. In this light, the present action of the Phillips Brooks House in discarding a habit that has been indulged in for more than seven generations of college men, is deserving of notice...
...interpretation of that intangible essence; and to offer them the inspiration necessary to carry the light of their discoveries into the colleges from which they came. Distinctly evangelical at its birth, the conference has more recently come down to the practical plane of college life in general. At the present time, the purpose is, in the words of ardent supporters, "to provide a week given over to intelligent, broadminded, consideration of the part religion can play in the complex life of the undergraduate." With this in mind, eminent divines have wrestled moderately with science and religion, and attempted to determine...
...benefit of the conference thus accrues only to the individual who unquestionably benefits from contact with the great national figures who are present, aside from the opportunity of meeting students from other colleges. But as an educational investment for an organization engaged, not in religious crusade, but in a rather practical form of hospitality and charity, the conference is of little value. In arriving at this conclusion the Phillips Brooks House has shown a commendable willingness to depart from a tradition that has proved itself of no value in its present work...
...importance in raising the value and dignity of the institution. As has been pointed out before in the CRIMSON, the new method of regional selection of candidates will have its disadvantages, but it at least points to the fact that the trustees are aroused to the deficiencies of the present system and are ready to take definite measures for their alleviation...