Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly preceding and long following July 1, 1918 came the Prohibition joke--a noxious thing which everyone hoped would shortly die a natural death. But it was imbued with remarkable staying powers and nearly six years after its birth, this old joke, this same old discussion, is still going strong. People try to shut their ears against its monotonous reiteration but such action will do no good. The reason for its staying powers is that like Banquo's ghost the question will not down. The Prohibition question, if not liver than ever, is certainly as live as when the Eighteenth...
When he was asked yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter his opinion of the Student Friendship Fund, the Right Reverend William Lawrence '71, Bishop of Massachusetts, and Fellow of Harvard College remarked: "How can Harvard students do a more friendly thing for fellow students in Europe and the Near East than to show their sympathy by sending a generous contribution to help them to gain something of the privileges we are receiving in our great universities in this prosperous country...
...creedal, racial, or national discriminations in the administration of this Fund. The world today needs some practical illustrations of the possibilities of applied idealism. This cooperation of the college youth of 36 nations in the Student Friendship Fund is one such illustration. I believe in that sort of thing...
...record of the work of the organization speaks for itself; the names of the men who serve upon its Advisory Committee add whatever weight is necessary to make up its great prestige. The necessary thing is to convey some how to the undergraduate body the conditions of students in Europe and the peril in which European education now lies. A perusal of the interviews which have appeared and are appearing in the CRIMSON should give some idea of the need for help. In fact anyone who has read anything within the last few years can scarcely remain in doubt upon...
...study in some special field. It is said that requirements kill initiative--that the survey method encourages superficiality; but we should favour the retention of the elective system in the domain of specialized studies, and the development of an even more intensive specialization of work is frankly special. The thing that we are quarrelling with is the regime of compromise which throws so much of the student's time into the region of half specialization that he is left in the end uninformed and undisciplined as well. The Freeman