Word: reads
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...agree that this is a time of storm and stress--an age of academic read-justment and reform. The new policies as to college work have gone into effect. They should result in stimulating a wider culture and a higher efficiency. If the word culture does not, the word efficiency must appeal to every young American. And every Harvard undergraduate should ponder well the demonstrated fact that without the attainment of the requisite power over intellectual problems by concentrated work, he can hardly expect to reach high place in after life. It does not make so much difference...
...would be well if the current number of the Graduates' Magazine were read by every undergraduate. It is of course desirable that the graduates should be among the first to know of the changes in opinion which are being disclosed, so that they, being convinced, may tell their juniors that they wish that things had been presented to them in this light when they were undergraduates; but after all it is the undergraduate who can profit personally by the new appeal for a fundamental change in the attitude of the average undergraduate toward his college work. In the last generation...
...Smith's delightful short stories and novels are widely known and read. Among the best are "Col. Carter, of Cartersville," "Gondola Days," "The Under Dog," "Col. Carter's Christmas" and "The Wood Fire...
...think that it reaches the real root of the evil. I believe the true source of the trouble lies not so much in the method of conducting these meetings, as in the section men themselves. To these men is often entrusted the whole conduct of the course. They read the weekly papers, grade the hour examinations, theses, and finals. The professor often gives these men absolute power over the grades. This is particularly true in courses in Applied Economics...
...annual meeting of the Harvard Aeronautical Society was held in the Assembly Room of the Union last evening. Professor A. L. Rotch h.'91, president of the society, presided, and introduced the speakers. E. C. Brown '12, secretary of the society, read his report and that of the treasurer, which showed a balance of $76.53. After these reports were read, the following men were elected officers for the ensuing year: president, Professor A. L. Rotch h.'91; vice-president, J. V. Martin; treasurer, A. Sweetser '11; secretary, E. C. Brown '12; directors, R. M. Allen '11, P. C. Cummin...