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Adjusting the newcomer to the college environment is a task not to be attempted in a spirit of levity. Harvard long ago abandoned the jocose practicality which often serves to initiate the Freshman. In place of practical humor was set up a system of more subtle wit the institution of Senior advisers. Some of these sages by proxy attended to their duties conscientiously, a numerous section did not. Too often the audience was treated to a handshake, a hurried call, and a request to drop around some time...
Whether the new arrangement is workable depends wholly on the calibre of the men selected. When faced with the task of guiding a dozen Freshmen through the perils of their first weeks in college, the honor of being on a committee of seventy may soon evaporate. But there remains an opportunity for service not everywhere available. The older student has an invaluable store of experience in undergraduate problems, the selection of courses or of activities. If he cares to be generous with his time, he may have the satisfaction of seeing his wards piloted to the haven of sophisticated security...
...ghettos of Eastern cities Coming from the plains of the Middle West and the Pacific Coast, from all parts of the country are boys in whom rests what promise the country has of fulfilling her purpose as a modern nation. All of these must be fitted for the task of intelligent and adequate citizenship in a modern state. Thus the traditions which are completely of New England to so much as they are necessary to strengthen and illumine the lives and minds of those who come to Harvard must be maintained; those which could the issues, which handicap the university...
...following excerpts discussing the two kinds of college newspapers are taken from an article in the current number of the Nation. The national weekly set Mr. Norman Student the task of investigating more than 400 college newspapers throughout the country. Among those classified either as bulletins or journals of opinion was the Crimson...
About half way through the race with their prow just keeping abreast of the University boat's stern, they started to forge ahead. While the Crimson rowers stuck grimly to their task the Tiger shell gradually crept up. Just before the bridge was reached the two prows were even, with Princeton still gaining. Harvard's best efforts were beginning to seem ineffectual against the powerful precision of the Tiger stroke...