Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...morally or mentally incapable men who will maintain that they have a perfect right to cheat if the proctor does not see them. The proctor is there to keep them from cheating, but if he is not quick enough to stop them they have used a legitimate right, they say. If the honor system were instituted at Harvard it would immediately change the present individual feeling against dishonesty, to an irresistible public spirit against it, as it has at Princeton and Williams and Amherst and other places where it has been used so successfully. The degenerates who are willing...
...recent vote of the Student Council that each class be assessed ten dollars a year to pay the expenses of the Council, brings to our attention that mysterious person, the Class Treasurer, and his functions. Mysterious, we say, because curiously enough and quite contrary to the usual state of affairs in corporate bodies, the treasurers of undergraduate classes in Harvard do not make public the condition of class finances. Assessments are laid on members of a class, money is received and spent for dinners, smokers, and other purposes, treasurers hand over their accounts and funds to their successors as each...
Religion is at the present time becoming more and more humanistic in its application--and social service is another word for a laboratory course in human nature. No man can rightfully say that he has known or tried to benefit man until he has seen specimens of his own species that need aid--not aid always of substantial nature--but the moral and mental aid that an educated man can give his uneducated brothers...
...another column of the CRIMSON are published the names of the men who are going south on the track team. These men compose only a small part of those who are being counted on to win points for the University this spring, to say nothing of the Freshmen, who are not included at all. Therefore it has been arranged that Coach Quinn stay in Cambridge during vacation from Wednesday through Saturday and coach these men every afternoon, and it is hoped and expected that both University and Freshman track and field candidates will take advantage of this chance for extra...
Rameau's "Ballet Suite" imposes a searching test upon a string orchestra, and it is not too much to say that the Pierian strings acquitted themselves most creditably by reason of their firm attack, rhythmical precision, and sensitive nuances...