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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University is often--and bitterly--attacked for being the leader of educational reaction in America. There is just enough distorted truth in this charge to demand a refutation. Out accusers must necessarily answer this question: Is there at Harvard a corporate academic conservatism? And no unbiased observer could fail to answer this question in the negative. The root of all these charge lies in a dangerous misconception; It is assumed that because many students are of the conservative class. This is obviously ridiculous. The Status of a certain group of students can neither be caused be nor cause the intellectual...
...Sunday will doubtless and find a great many things to condemn in the University. That is his way. It is reasonable, also, that there are thing to condemn. But it is a question whether Mr. Sunday, in his criticism, will pick on these things or rather on the things that may be commended. It is to be hoped that the University's opinion of Mr. Sunday, while not necessarily reciprocal, may be fully as high as Mr. Sunday's opinion of the University. And it is quite possible, should Mr. Sunday have occasion to visit Harvard, that even the most...
...organization is on record in its by-laws as opposed to proselyting. An attempt will be made to find an answer to this question at the evening meeting, which will be given up to a general discussion of the topic, led by the principals of several prominent secondary schools, among which are Phillips Exeter, Andover, Mercersburg and the University School of Cleveland...
...Student body is interested also by the question of dormitory facilities. The Alumni Weekly again calls attention editorially to the lack of dormitory accommodation both the college and in the Scientific School. By assigning to the freshmen the Vanderbit dormitories, a step has been taken this year which is highly commended. But because of inadequate housing facilities, 43 college seniors, five juniors, 37 sophomores and 12 freshmen are not living in dormitories with their classmates...
...outstanding issue of the campaign, the one vital problem which our next President will have to face, seems to me to be the question of the relations between the American people and the people of other lands. The people, I say; not the governments. In this great conflict, it is the people, not the rulers, who occupy the first place in our thoughts, and at the end, the people, even the women (God be praised!), will have to be considered. What ought our position to be? The situation is absolutely new in history. The problems that we shall face...