Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Reoccupying its former quarters in the old Cambridge City Hall, 744 Massachusetts avenue, the Prospect Union has opened as a workingmen's college and club. During the past two years the rooms of the Union have been devoted to the use of the Red Cross and other war activities. The opening meeting of the season will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at which educational and club enterprises with Harvard instruction will be discussed...
This argument is founded upon the delusion that every verdant Freshman who enters the gates of Harvard knows just what is best for him, and that he will carry out to the letter this wisely planned schedule for his college career; which is a delightful prospect, but conceived in the clouds. It is hard to believe, with the new departmental examinations, the stress put upon "intellectual responsibility," and the liberal courses offered, that Harvard is fostering the "type" and discouraging "whatsoever things are elevated...
With the publication of the first number of the new "Review", however, we discover a real prospect of a constructive intellectual paper, which appreciates the true meaning of the words "liberal", and "conservative." A glance at the first paragraph of this new periodical's program fills us with a new hope and belief. To quote...
Practice has been commenced by the University Gun Club at the trap-house on Soldiers Field, and shooting at clay pigeons has been started. An average of six men are shooting there every day, but as more than a dozen men have joined the club, there is every prospect of a good team being formed with the opening of College next fall...
...than the addition of a monumental portal to the Yard fence, now so nearly complete. Of course we all hope that the alumni will create some single splendid memorial to the memory of all Harvard dead in the great war, but I should be unhappy to think that the prospect of this should discourage the creation of individual memorials on a smaller scale, so priceless for their intimacy and the personal feeling to which they testify. I wish you every success in your undertaking. G. H. EDGELL...