Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Such a statement ought to have been uttered ages ago; for, it will appear, most of the editors of undergraduate publications have been attempting to meet the conditions these reviewers have imposed upon them, and, strange though it may seem to "the young assistant," one cannot grow up in a night--even after a scathing review of his "immature" style. It has grown upon me, as I have looked through the files of the CRIMSON reviews, preparatory to writing this letter, that the only persons to be trusted with a pen in criticising undergraduate literary efforts are professors...
...thing, however, in which the students themselves must help. Any member of the University who has reason to suppose that any article he misses has been stolen, should at once report the missing article and the circumstances of its loss to the Yard police. However trivial the loss may seem, it is from such clues that detection of the culprit and return of the stolen property have resulted in several instances. Not for his own sake alone, but for the sake of his fellow-students, the loser should co-operate with the Yard detectives in this...
...special training grows apace. It is still possible for a young man to "grow up with the business" or to manage a successful business enterprise with no special training. But as in the professions, the long-run advantages to the average man of scientific training in his particular work seem to have become extremely worth while--as witness of which to skeptics stands the article on the Business School reprinted in this issue from the World's Work. To give an "all round view" of business has been the purpose of the School, and by its success it has long...
...action of the Speakers' Club in opening a series of current events meetings is a happy compromise. It does not seem advisable yet to follow the experiments of some colleges by offering courses in Current Topics and the present system is a splendid substitute. The Speakers' Club's commendable hospitality should be well utilized tonight...
...then, the hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars shown by the report plus the twelve thousand or so for the upkeep of Hemenway Gymnasium are placed beside the two and a half million odd expended yearly in the operation of the University, far from disproportionately large for athletics. They seem unusually reasonable. At least the body is in no danger of receiving a preponderance of attention over the mind...