Word: small
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...believe there is not less of real democracy at Harvard than at Stanford. It would be almost impossible for Harvard to demonstrate its democracy as Stanford does. Stanford is a small community in itself. It is located about a mile and a half from Palo Alto, the nearest town, and all fraternities and clubs are on the "Campus" and within ten minutes walk of most of the university buildings. At Harvard the students are scattered over a large city. The village lends itself to the democracy and familiarity that are quite impossible in the metropolis. On the other hand...
...this is a boldly imaginative undertaking, with a final page of no small power, it savors of positive recklessness to attempts a summary of it in a brief paragraph. The attempt is made primarily for the sake of calling attention to the possibilities of sudden development in young Americans. It is only seven years since the 1910 Monthly board was in College. If their writing had then been scrutinized with a view to what the writers would do in such an emergency as that to which the world has come, what would the prophecy have been? The answer...
...other organizations. It is not necessary for candidates to be expert photographers. The copy and registration candidates will have charge of the main makeup of the book, including class lives and membership in athletic and social organizations. The business candidates will gather subscriptions and advertisements and do a small amount of office work...
...Dark Ages before any of the undergraduates now in College knew that Harvard existed the University football teams tasted defeat year after year. The numbers at the games were small and unenthusiastic, and the Crimson supporters regarded football as a necessary evil among sports. Suddenly there came a change. Football was transformed into the most highly organized of all college activities. Certain prominent graduates interested themselves in the development of an efficient system of coaching, and immediately increased numbers of undergraduates responded to the call for candidates when they realized that their efforts would receive the attention they deserved. Much...
Whether Harvard will care to enter into competition with Yale along that line of student activity remains to be seen. There are college men everywhere who make a specialty of wrestling with King Alcohol whenever his majesty offers an opportunity, but their number is comparatively small. It happens, however, that the drunken student usually makes more noise than the sober one, and naturally attracts more attention in public places...