Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make the Junior Fraternities a liaison between different units seems to imbue some of their members with a hope for their ultimate salvation. Certainly it gives them more concrete reason for occupying the palaces in York Fields. It should silence the casual undergraduate who might look at the vast financial outlay represented in their houses and say "Why?" The possibility of service in keeping the quadrangles from becoming too strictly insular has advantages which commend themselves over the nebulous aims of the contemporary organizations. Yale Daily News...
There is perhaps, subtle psychological reason why the first of January should be singled out from amongst all the other days of the year as a time particularly appropriate for the making of good resolutions, for the not always congenial matter of turning over a new page in the book of life. No doubt it is because it is the only time known to man when the first of a month and the first of the year coincide, and that impelled by the year coincide, and that impelled by the double action of both of these useful but in themselves...
...allowed to obscure the fact, that Harvard is not doing all it could to keep abreast of the times in what might be called the newer sciences. Eugenics is one of them, and the fact that it is not yet anywhere near an exact science is no valid reason for its not being fostered by the Harvard curriculum. In fact the amorphousness in which most theories for race betterment now find themselves should be but a stronger incentive for serious efforts toward research and instruction. It is a challenge to any honest educational institution which wishes to acquaint its students...
Such a time is the present moment. Take for example merely two things--Divisional Examinations and the Pops Concerts. Is there any really good reason why these should come at the same time so that the conscientious seeker after a sheepskin will be bound to his books, and only those will be able to luxuriate in an atmosphere of near beer, pretzels and music whose consciences have become muscle-bound from much wrestling or who have taken precautions to provide themselves with umbrellas for protection against the examinatory torrent...
...such a tremendous organization there are many openings which would naturally be filled by college men, and for that reason this company and many others have systematically gone about recruiting seniors in men's and women's colleges who will be trained for the key position in their establishments...