Word: seavers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anyone could so completely miss the point of your editorial on "The Iron Man", as did Mr. Seaver in his communication of the 16th, is a mystery to me. Not having "been to busy furthering civilization to give much thought to it", I find the ideas you there advanced rather compelling, as would anyone who did not read it with "a chip on his shoulder". The CRIMSON, I take it, did not "pass judgement" on anyone. It merely tried to point out that the Age of Machinery has brought with it fewer hours of labor--for the student as well...
What more natural, then, that we should adjust out school system, particularly the primary, so that education for the best possible enjoyment of leisure may replace present-day education for economic efficiency--alike for the laborer and Mr. Seaver's "young barbarians" in the colleges? After all, it is the educated people who, by the large, are the happiest; that background social, philosophical, aesthetic that detached point of view which education gives, somehow helps to preserve one's equanimity amid the vicissitudes of existence. Such being the case, Mr. Seaver can not, with decency, dub "Pharisee" and "hypocrite" those...
...their jobs and loaf all day instead of a few hours. How does the bible put it? Pluck the mote out of your own eye first, or something like that. I don't know. I have been too busy furthering civilization to give much thought to it. EDWIN SEAVER...
...Seaver Hall from 8.30 to 2.30 o'clock...
Dana, A. W., 68 Seaver St., Roxbury...