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...which the advancement of nations is measured is industrial progress. By this standard the western nations are called progressive and the eastern nations stationary. But the east believes that effort for industrial progress should not be expended beyond a certain point. Industrial progress and spiritual progress should hold a sort of balance. If the goal of action is anything beside the satisfaction of the senses, then the progress of a people should be measured by something besides material advancement...
...will agree that we have felt the great shortcomings of Harvard social life in this respect, and while we have believed that it is impossible ever to arrive at any ideal state we have still been of the opinion that there are many inherent obstacles to the right sort of intercourse which are capable of eradication. I remember how we set going Freshmen receptions some years ago, and how we welcomed Mr. Higginson's gift of the Union as tending to remove these obstacles. These things like the special efforts now being made for frequent smokers and other large informal...
...examination of the catalogues of the leading colleges in the country shows the widest diversity of opinion on this point. Where there is such diversity it is more rational to let the student choose for himself. Perhaps we can do nothing better than to see once more what sort of system we have been advocating. It is a system demanded by the logic of circumstances; it is a rational system, one which contains room at all times for prescription of a definite quantity and quality of work, and at the right time--in the preparatory school--even for prescription...
...account of the inability of many well-known graduates to attend the dinner this week. W. T. Reid, Jr., '01, who will arrive in Boston the latter part of this month, will be one of the guests at the dinner, as it is intended to make it a sort of welcome to him as well as a compliment to the nine...
...House Committee has had brought to its attention several cases of men who have been using the Union although not members. That an abuse of this sort is fairly widespread there can be no doubt, for the means taken to exclude non members are entirely inadequate. The question as to whether or not more stringent means should be adopted has been much discussed, but the inconvenience to regular members of a careful police system has outweighed, in the minds of the committee, the importance of trying to find out who all these offenders...