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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Should expansion necessitate further extension of the club element in what is essentially an all-Harvard enterprise, no number of new buildings would be compensation. An ambitious building program might easily lead to a situation that would limit the scope and possibilities of the Advocate as an organ of student literary expression. New quarters to meet the needs of the day are not only desirable but necessary, but these quarters should definitely remain those of a publication and an over emphasis of their social usefulness ought not to follow...
Under such an endowment, with athletics freed from financial dependence, the benefit of the student body at large rather than the attraction of big gates would have a chance to become the ideal. Intercollegiate contests might even become subordinated to intramurals, which, in the last analysis, are the most important branch of college athletics. As long as intramural sports are dependent on varsity earnings they will necessarily occupy the subordinate position...
Perhaps, in time, his student body will follow the faculty to the foot of the tree of knowledge and to the exit from the garden of Eden, and leave Dr. Shields the snake and an apple core...
...chemistry laboratory hours. Men of my acquaintance declare they would take more science courses, were it not for the interference of laboratory hours with valuable extra-curricular activities. One man has even been deterred from specializing in chemistry because of this conflict, and because he felt athletics and various student enterprises were more broadening and worth while...
...once newspapers learn that an institution is trying to suppress a story, the chances are nine out of ten that they will give that particular story a much bigger ply than they would have had it been given to the papers when it first broke." The New Student...