Word: showings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...general intellectual standard at Harvard, seems to create an opportunity for renewing a suggestion which has been made a great many times in the past, but upon which no real action has ever been taken. This suggestion is that the student body should take some action which would show an appreciation of high scholarship resembling that which is shown for conspicuous success in athletics. One plan has been to award to men of high scholarship the privilege of wearing the "H" on their sweaters; but a sweater is not especially fitting for a scholar nor emblematic of scholarship. Some other...
...undergraduate body is to show this general public recognition for the man who has won laurels in scholarly pursuits has never been successfully worked out. The Phi Beta Kappa elections in honoring the twenty or more highest scholars in the class give to the men an excellent reward for their efforts but it does not come from the students as a whole. The broadening of the scope of the requirements of election recently has been of distinct advantage in securing a group of men representing the best and sanest types of intellectual students, but it is not given them...
...experiments in reform that have been already tried clearly show the superiority of one board, elected at large, and restrained in the exercise of its powers by publicity, state supervision, and popular control. The experiment of one board has been successful wherever it has been tried. A small board, moreover, is to be preferred to a large board, as it is possible for the community to choose five men intelligently, while a wise selection is difficult when there are seventy-five men to be elected, as in the case of the city councils of the present...
...working classes do not at present realize the evils existing in American city government; but when this appreciation is brought home to them, they will undoubtedly be on the side of the right. The question at present is, Should not universal suffrage be given a fair chance to show that with efficient machinery it can establish a city government that will be at once efficient and pure...
...even," "fonder" and "wonder," as well as to the expression "memory of remembered faces"; but the verses are in general melodious, and the dreamy sadness of tone reflects one side of the effect of the sea-sounds. The other poetical pieces are creditable in thought and wording; they all show a good ear for rhythm. "The parting of Lancelot and Guinevere" has the tender solemnity of the old romances. "In the City," "Sunrise," and "Prisoners," describe certain aspects of nature, and "Love's Perfect Hour" is a happy translation from the French. The general excellence of the number is occasionally...