Word: spheres
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...brought many changes in the daily life of the people. The college undergraduate has been equally affected and moves in a sphere unknown to the peaceful days of previous years. He has curtailed almost all activities which have no direct hearing on the present conflict. Old customs which had become Harvard's sacred traditions have passed out of existence. All this the undergraduate gladly accepts, knowing it to be the inevitable. Yet there is a danger that war hysteria may drive Americans to measures which are not marked by necessity. It is this consideration which demands reflection on the decision...
There are, moreover, definite and tangible examples of this modern evolution. The first remedy for restricting monopoly is public regulation. During the last decades it has entered every sphere of industrial life. Unfortunately it has not worked well, and has been a serious menace to progress. The tendency of such control is almost without exception to crush private ownership. The railroads illustrate only too well how government supervision squeezes industry until it is no longer worth while for individuals to conduct it. At such a point economic organization evolves into public ownership, as it has done in the past...
...plan of academic training throughout the year, which will not only place Harvard among leaders in educational reform, but which will go far toward a more complete conception of war-time needs. This is not peace and we cannot be satisfied with a normal college life. The true sphere of the university is the provision of academic training, as much as possible of it at all times, but the very maximum at this period in the world's affairs...
...last year the work of Phillips Brooks House has taken on a new significance. Where before it was called upon only to meet local need, it has now entered a larger sphere. We need make no mention of the little nut which followed our regiment to Barre, nor of the canteen now maintained for the Cambridge sailors. We need not repeat the praise rendered this house of service for its aid in the Y. M. C. A. campaign, in the Halifax disaster, and in many other war concerns. Its record stands for itself, a memorial to Harvard...
...enterprise started 25 years ago is due wholly to the fact that the idea originated within the undergraduate body, spontaneously, irresistibly. Their desire, their determination, rein-forced by succeeding generations of college men, has caused the idea to become an unquestioned success, not only in the primary sphere of its operation, but throughout the entire range of our campus life...