Word: readings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...representative magazine is not yet; the anthology of Harvard's "best" is-still unborn, but the Advocate is awake and doing its share toward letting us know what the majority of undergraduates can and do write; and, it is to be hoped, read. Possibly the isolated genius does not flourish in these pages, and perhaps there are here no signs of that rara avis, the average student. But infallibly there is worth-while work from men blessed with ideas and ability to express them
...Borland '21, president of the class, read the proposed amendment, after which the voting took place. He also made a short address in which he urged a larger attendance at the University baseball games...
...given opportunity to receive home hospitality of various kinds, as they did dur- ing the war: Sunday dinners and suppers, dances and parties of various kinds, trips to historic points under interesting guidance, besides the use of the Hostess House itself, with its homey atmosphere, where they can read, write, play the piano or victrola, and where they will find a hostess ready to listen when they feel like talking, where they can come alone or bring their mothers and sisters or their girl friends...
...minute the revolutionists get into power they imitate the very sins of their predecessors in regard to newspapers, and on precisely the same ground: that they must see to it that the truth shall be printed. But these socialistic reformers are just as certain that this truth must be read through their colored spectacles as were the governments which have come to such an inglorious...
...responsibility. Most of us have tried to follow the Peace Conference in the newspapers; but we really know very little beyond the fact that there is some sort of an argument about the Saar Vallely and that Italy is not satisfied. A great number of Harvard men have never read the Covenant for the League of Nations and some never will. Although an absolutely ignorant person will be able to gain important knowledge from Mr. Taft's lecture, the benefit and enjoyment we derive from it will be proportioned to our knowledge. It will be to Harvard's credit...