Word: productive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be logical you must needs agree that the humanities must go. If you are in need of arguments you might use the following in some future editorial: a university is essentially like a pickle factory in this respect; it is to be judged by its product. And an examination of the careers of the men who have studied the humanities demonstrated conclusively that these studies have survived their usefulness. Any system that turns out such intellectual pigmies as Lord Macaulay or a Gladstone deserves just what the twentieth century gives it--derision. A. L. GARDNER...
...field ready to aid men in every possible way. A track management and a graduate track committee exist for the supervision and development of track teams at Harvard. In other words Harvard has raw material, an adequate plant, and skilled workers, but cannot turn out the finished product. What is the matter with the track team...
Ever since its founding in 1908 the Dramatic Club has been unique among college theatrical organizations. From the beginning its fundamental aim has been to exclude professionalism and make its work the product of undergraduate talent. At present its autumn and spring productions are staged, acted, and coached by members of the University...
Novelty of scenery and costumes and livelinese of action mark this piece as a true product of the West. The "Orange Day in California" scene is full of "pep," for the entire company engages in a battle with the audience with paper oranges as ammunition. In "Follow the Cook," Trixie Fringaza shows how much "music" a stove covered with suitable pots and pans can yield. The music as a whole is lively and gay, with a rythm and refrain not easily lost. "Canary Cottage" and "I Never Knew" are the real game of the piece and keep you whistling...
That the old New England stock is not perpetuating itself is no new fact. That the graduates of women's colleges do not bear their proportionate share in race production is no new fact. Yet it is new to learn that Harvard and Yale graduates the typical product of the best colleges of the United States, are producing only a little over half of the children necessary to perpetuate their type, and that this figure has been constantly on the decrease. J. C. Phillips '99, in the Graduates' Magazine, gives the data which prove these facts. His research covers...