Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article would be complete without mentioning that football is to the English student a game to be played and enjoyed two or three times a week, and not a religion the celebration of whose rites occupy the chief time, energy, and thought of its acolytes for weeks and months! There is much to be said for each point of view, but as a player I enjoyed the English variety more. On the other hand, the American attitude has in it far greater possibilities for learning the joy of sacrificing for a cause
...surprising to find 28 dentists and only 20 restaurants, but no more so than to discover 14 lawyers, 11 laundries, and nine barber shops. Evidently Cantabrigians in this vicinity believe in preserving their beauty, for there are 11 beauty and massage shops; the amount of student patronage is unknown...
Whether liquor advertisements in the Harvard "Crimson" and "Lampoon" are construed to have been print in jest or not is a matter for the officials there to decide. The case does, however, indicate that the student attitude toward prohibition is not one of deep respect, such as the Constitution of the United States ordinarily commands...
...glance around any modern bookshop is proof that current literature is far greater in amount than the average reader can hope comfortably to taste, to chew, or to digest. The student in Harvard naturally feels somewhat at a loss which way to turn when presented with such a volume of reading matter. The value of some sort of selection in this maze of books seems obvious...
...regretted, however, that the committee plans to include only nonfiction on its list, and that its first selections would be almost wholly of interest to the scholar rather than the student. The former hardly needs a guide. But with so large a proportion of the finest modern authors using the drama and the novel as a medium, a little emphasis on the more human side of current literature would be of greater benefit to the vast majority of Harvard men than the scheme which the committee has evolved...