Word: student
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...size and nature of Harvard can give no single man, much less Mr. Seldes, a complete view of its nature. There seem to be so many characteristics of Harvard that no individual can see them all from his limited position. For example, one may attempt to classify the student body. He will find, among others, six groups--those dominated by a social complex, those with an intellectual complex, a pecuniary complex, an athletic complex, or a combination of these complexes, and finally, those with no complexes at all. Which is predominant is a matter open to question. To which...
...organization is for the editor to be absolute in his authority when it comes to a final decision about the policy of the paper. The committee also held the view that editorials should represent the opinion of the editors of the newspaper, not the opinion of the majority of students in the college. We all felt," he continued, "that the publications should lead, not follow and that the evils of this plan are fewer than those that exist when a paper merely echoes the feelings of the students, the student government, or the faculty...
Although its existence is no longer marked by the constant flourish of trumpets that accompanied its birth struggles, student government appears to be doing well enough, in a quiet way; and once a year it takes pleasure in calling together its representatives from the convenient extremities of Maine and California, to take stock, likewise in a quiet way, and to celebrate another anniversary. The National Student Federation meeting is one of the rare front-page topics left of the sensational tumult that a few years ago nearly brought faculties and undergraduates to blows, and did result in an almost universal...
...this type is accepted rather more restrainedly now than it was just after the war, during the blanket enthusiasm for every sort of co-operation from the Farmers' Milk Exchange to the Melting Pot. Certainly there is pleasure and prestige to be had through such associations as the National Student Federation; the profit derived therefrom must be a general and genial entity. Without executive power, which no one desires to grant it, the recommendations of the organization through its committees remain merely advisory and the whole advantage of the discussions boils down to an exchange of opinions on ideas that...
...since the country's hundreds of colleges have an equal number of varying outlooks and requirements and administrative needs, this is about as it should be. For the short-sighted Easterner who is in danger of forgetting that education exists even beyond the Atlantic seaboard, the National Student Federation has particular importance. He who lives in a rarefied atmosphere of century-old traditions may still have to learn that sophistication is not necessarily identical with culture, and that the Hintergrund may be no more than a geographical expression...