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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club this year was held in the parlor of the Phillips Brooks House yesterday evening. F. Bela, 1 Med., the president of the club opened his speech by welcoming "everyone who can set aside nationality and take up humanity." "We know the word enemy," he said, "only to deny its significance for ourselves." The main point of his talk was to tell the members of the club that the friendships they made here would be shared by their peoples in future years...
...enrolled in the new School will be taken from Class 4 of the General Service of the Naval Reserve. Four hundred of these men took examinations last summer on August 22 and 29 at the Charlestown Navy Yard. Captain Parker said that the selection of these men was going on now, but that he would be unable to secure a complete list until the end of this week. The sudden increase in the enrolment has of course postponed the announcement...
...final word Professor Perry said "Get the rhythm of this great University and take up the slack of spiritual indifference...
...rhythm of this great University" was the advice given to the Freshmen last night in the first of the regular Monday evening meetings held in the Smith Hall Common Room by Professor Bliss Perry. "I am sorry," he said, "for those who go through this college and never discover what Harvard University is, but not sorry for that fellow who comes here from far off, and feels out of place and awkward, but who does the real thinking, dreams the dreams which have changed the face of the whole world." He said he was sorry for the "spoon fed" fellow...
...must go in for the greatest things in life, not out for them." He advised them to search within themselves and inquire into the real aim of their college life and their object in being here. He did not declaim against, going out for the activities in college but said that here the Freshmen have a chance of a lifetime to find the most important thing in the world, but a chance which is not held out as one leading to prominence and college leadership. They must "shift their point of view and change their scale of values...