Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer to this question may be found in the placing of some of the more important undergraduate positions on a remunerative basis. The major sport managerships, the presidency of the CRIMSON, and the presidency of the Phillips Brooks House, which are generally considered among the foremost student positions, are in fact real jobs, as stringent proportionally in their demands on time and energy of men whose resources are already taxed as an executive place in a corporation. The counter attractions to the part of student leaders that are now making themselves felt will be doubly powerful in a decade. Undergraduates...
There are, however, a few places now held by undergraduates which will continue in their present status. The question is whether, at the end of ten years of development of the student body along its present lines, there will be enough men of the calibre required for some of these positions who will be willing to divide their time and abilities with work which yields no tangible return beyond a dead glory and that old bromide known as "experience...
...most urgent athletic need rests with the alumni, and with whoever else may be in a position to contribute toward its construction. Until the sum of $300,000 is subscribed to meet the complete cost, actual work cannot start. The element of time does not enter alone into the question The conditions of the original gift of $250,000 which gave impetus to the plans stipulated that construction be begun by February 1929, and be complete by February, 1930. Failure to meet the first of these conditions will mean the loss of the gift--a quarter of the entire...
...blame in what is clearly a case of divided inadvertencies has little point, particularly in this admittedly extraordinary instance. Undergraduates find little fault with the conduct of examinations at Harvard in such matters of principle as the question of the honor system. Certain of its mechanics, however, are rather less than satisfactory. There is something about the proctor who giggles over the examination paper just before the official moment of release, who never has the ink at hand, or who is unprepared for a request of second bluebooks during a three hour examination, that sicklies over with the pale cast...
...think that prohibition is a decided question of the campaign and that each candidate is entitled to a fair statement on the stand of his opponent. Each has a right to a frank answer on the prohibition question...