Word: takings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clothes collection will be conducted under the direction of the Treasurer of Phillips Brooks House. Canvassers will be appointed by him and will be assigned to the various dormitories of the college. Trucks will be provided to take away the clothes and text books...
...money is being spared to mould opinion in America to a favorable view of Germany's plight. Nothing is overlooked that might create a breach between Allied troops and the Armies of the United States. It is in these phases of present German activity that the University must take more of an interest than it has manifested up to the present time. If one will but take the trouble to examine the situation, it will be seen that we have a very real menace and one that cannot be lightly regarded...
Colleges, especially at the present time, must take an interest--an active interest--in vital questions. It is no longer enough for undergraduates to put the stamp of their disapproval upon a suggestion; active measures to combat it and to influence opinion are not only expected but demanded. In our undergraduate days, few, if any, of us ever realized that the opinion of Harvard College counted for anything, either in the world at large or in the United States. Due to the war and the moving about of men in service we gradually found out that not only...
...letter of the tenor which appeared in the Saturday's CRIMSON is doubly inexcusable when a person realizes that it comes from one in Mr. Wheelwright's position. It was not only extremely poor taste but grossly presumptive. To think that an undergraduate should take it upon himself to demand further personal sacrifice from his instructors is really preposterous. I would like to ask Mr. Wheelwright how many of his instructors have been made unfit for his friendship by their wealth. I would like to ask him further how much personal sacrifice he has made to be in the "sympathetic...
...college paper. A candidate for the paper must learn to meet men well to force men to give him their time. He must be a master of his tools, after forging his own tools. Such a training is a direct preparation for any work the candidate may take up later in life...