Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Creditable as is the record of the Appointment Office to date, there is great opportunity for a more complete utilization of its facilities by Harvard men, especially members of the graduating class. For his own sake every man who is looking for a job should avail himself of the privilege of registering at the office. Inasmuch as the Alumni Association keeps in touch with the graduates who held positions of responsibility it is able to place applicants under conditions that promise advancement and success. The office is constantly endeavoring to broaden its scope and to extend its facilities; Harvard...
...becoming reconciled to it, and the number of those who are dangerous to the government is decreasing rapidly with time. Secondly, there are the old men who earnestly believe the monarchy to be the better form of government, and desire to see the emperor restored not for their own sake, but for the country's. But this party is becoming weaker with time...
...American chiefly that this overemphasis has been laid upon purpose. Efficiency has made its inroads not only upon business but upon literature as well--art for art's sake has been transferred into art for the solution of problems, are for propaganda's sake, and the like. America likes to think of itself as a hustling, bustling, nation of practical and efficient men who have not time to waste either in the creation or reading of navels which do not more than tell a pleasant story pleasantly. America, with all it boasted sense of humor take life more strenuously...
...central purpose of the plan is to get certain great books, or parts of great books, read for their own sake--not read about, or lectured about, or crammed for the information that is in them. No body, to be sure, is forbidded to take a course which includes the reading of the Bible, or Shakspere, or the two required authors, if he wants to read them in that way. But the thing which is really offered is exactly the thing for which there has been a persistent demand of late--the opportunity to read independently of courses...
...Book Reviews in the Advocate this winter have been above the average in critical ability and interest of expression. This special number supplements them in a contrasting form and has widened the field for the unofficial study of contemporary publications. It is to be hoped for the sake of the editorial board and the readers that this entertaining experiment is to be repeated in another form next year...