Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neither the traditional Sabbath nor the laws of the Puritans have been able to preserve their sanctity in the twentieth century. If inertia prevents the repeal of unwanted laws there are many precedents as well as every reason for suspending their operation where rigorous enforcement causes inconvenience to many and benefit to none...
...stimulating lectures in any department to make an entire abolition of course attendance undesirable. Whether or not the course reductions at present allowed Seniors who are candidates for honors has struck the proper balance between course and tutorial work in perhaps open to question. But there is certainly little reason to suppose that a general reduction in course requirements at Harvard would be a widespread blessing...
...think of no more confusing job for a conscientious correspondent than to be in Boston covering Harvard University. Perfectly reliable news stories emanate from its classic shades one day only to be denied the next. There was no reason the news given out by officials of the Harvard Athletic Association on May 3 should not have been printed tanent the raising of a ten million dollar athletic funds but on the following day President Lowell, after what was probably a frantic conference with the Overseers, Trustees and the heads of Lee Higginson (perhaps a redundant grouping) hotly denied that there...
...details of the match which is being played this afternoon have been worked out to a nicety and the results will be telegraphed across the continent from one institution to the other in order to determine the winner. If this experiment proves successful there might seem to be no reason why the golf team should ever-leave Cambridge to engage an opponent, except that, all the competitive spirit of the contest would be lost...
...Beta Kappa game between the Crimson and Blue used to be an annual event but after the 1924 contest the custom was discontinued for some unknown reason. With Yale's acceptance of the challenge of O. S. Loud '29, Marshal of the chapter, it is believed that the yearly custom will be renewed...