Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first-year men have no more real understanding of the purposes and potentialities of a Harvard education in June than, they had in September. It is dangerous because it may involve an irreparable loss of time and the self-educated choice of a field into which actually the student should never have entered. If four years of college are at all important, they are worth, thinking about from-the very beginning. The average freshman does not think, to the extent that he inquires, examines, and reflects upon. He has an impression that he is going to concentrate in English: during...
...would appear, perhaps, an unnecessary expenditure of time and effort for the adviser to go so thoroughly into a matter which more than half of his students will never care about anyway. But after all, it is the very least that can be done, to attempt to arouse intellectual interest and to stimulate it along channels amenable to its particular characteristics. The ninety-and nine failures on the part of the adviser will measure up small in comparison with the one success the one student who comes there interested in nothing at all, and quite able and willing, his visions...
...Cummings '30, running for the B. A. A. came in third in the 400-metre run, while MacAuley Smith, the old Yale Intercollegiate cross country champion, now a student in the Law School, representing the B. A. A. had little opposition in taking the 500-metre, run in 15 minutes 29 4-5 seconds...
...Italian army outnumbers the Jugoslav three to one. The Jugoslav navy of 12 destroyers and torpedo boats and one, pre-War German cruiser would be a puny opponent for the modern, potent Battle Fleet of Italy. Yet last week in a score of Jugoslav cities and towns student hotheads, marched, demonstrated, rioted, skirmished with the police, and shouted: "Down with Mussolini!" "Long live King Alexander [of Jugoslavia]!" "Death to Fascismo!"; and "Down with the Treaty of Nettuno...
Firemen tried a hose, could not swamp student ardor. Reluctantly, at last, the police opened fire upon the mob, killing, wounding, restoring order...