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...kept because of the poor salaries offered. Endowment drives are under way for the main purpose of keeping the great minds in the teaching profession. But do not let us neglect the foreman of education--the section man. He is the future professor. Without a good foundation the upper stratum of a faculty cannot hope to survive...
...Prospect Union is not just another of those extra-curricular activities "deserving of undergraduate support." Its special significance for Harvard at this time lies in the fact that it offers the best and perhaps the only opportunity for College men to meet grown men from a really different social stratum on something like a common basis...
...accord with the sentiment of the Board that that cartoon was removed. The Advocate knows that the editors of the Harvard Magazine have their own, well-defined policy, and it does not recognize the right of anyone to interfere with that policy. The new magazine represents a wide stratum of public literary taste. The editors of it honestly believe in their conception of literature, as was shown by the difficulty with which they were retired from the Advocate Board last year...
...This morning at 10 o'clock one section went to lunch while the other section in which I was (eight of us) stayed to fly till 12. It had become cloudy and when I went up I had to climb through one stratum of clouds to where the target was being towed, at 1,200 metres. It was an extraordinarily fine sight. Above this cloud floor it was clear and bright. The clouds looked very solid like great snowdrifts, with crevices, through which one could see the ground far below and peaks and domes rising above the others. The machine...
...after all a higher animal, and as an animal, contains certain springs of action. Instruction is then fundamentally the manipulation of the underlying sources. The second nature is never fatal, but merely the result of the action of certain agencies. If exterior influences can create it from the underlying stratum, it is likewise true that it can be unmade and made again by similar agencies. The love of money, with some a second nature, is but the evolution of the principle of first nature that influences man to acquire and amass...