Word: tent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Finally, the Harvard Union is not a side-show, as the writer so "generously" termed it. In fact, since its very creation it has been the "big tent" for undergraduate activity, and this is clearly evident from the numerous mass meetings and smokers held there. In short, the Union has been the center of undergraduate life in the past, and by the plan of compulsion it is hoped to perfect it as such for the future...
...should, especially in a higher institution, have as little as possible to do with compulsion. The Union is merely one of the side-shows of this educational institution. Must we be compelled to pay ten cents extra for the side-show, when the price of admission to the main tent has just been raised from $1.50 to $2? Much compulsion is bad for the pulse...
...regular fee, which is charged for all students, is $12 a week, and includes board, lodging in a tent, laboratory fees, and instruction...
...whom the day crowns four years of work, are, if anything, the greatest sufferers. It is high time something was done to make this important and impressive occasion popular with all Harvard people, as it was in an earlier day. The suggestion has been made that a large tent be erected in the quadrangle between Pierce and Langdell. Objections to this, however, are the expense and the fact that on a hot day the temperature under canvas would be scarcely bearable. Besides, unless the tent were enormous, the remedy to the present situation would be only one of degree...
...then be pardoned a little timely exultation in showing our appreciation of the efforts of the coaches and men who have brought about these results. College athletics are not the main tent; they are properly the side show of college life; but the side show is often very important, if only to set off and strengthen the main attractions. "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are," says the physician. Similarly one might say, "tell me how well you play at manly contests, and I will tell you how well you work intellectually...