Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is no wish here to proselyte for aid to any particular party in the conflict. America has helped Germany, many think, in sending supplies to Belgium; and it happens that France and England are the countries at present most accessible to Americans for hospital work. Here is an opportunity to develop and mature in the presence of gigantic convulsions, and at the same time to serve the cause of humanity...
...purpose of the committee on probation is to create a more pronounced sentiment against men's getting on probation, and to help them from getting on probation. This year the activity of the committee has been restricted to the problem in relation to the oral examination. However, I think that the possibilities for constructive work along this line are considerable, especially through the means of co-operation with the new Scholarship Service Bureau of the Phi Beta Kappa...
...Monthly's leading article on "Our Wavering Paternalism" is interesting and provocative. It makes us think, and it moves us to reply. The author has a lot of good ideas, though he suggests no constructive plan of reform. One regrets that he feels it necessary to crouch under a pseudonym: we should like it better if he signed his name, better still if he would stand on his feet in that Forum which he scorns and meet his opponents face to face. For his tone is sneering, and some of his statements are debatable. There are many who would like...
...would make one suggestion which I think has already been partly worked out by W. I. Tibbetts '17. That is, that every effort be made to retain the men at the settlements where they have been engaged during the past year. This will save a great deal of trouble for the social service secretary, and also will greatly help the settlements in getting their work under way for the fall, as that is the hardest time of the year for the head workers...
...CRIMSON thinks Senator Hollis spoke with characteristic impulsiveness when he says that snobbishness is all that he acquired during his four years here. Surely he also acquired the ability to think for himself. His utterances in the Union last year and at Lynn Thursday prove that. The Senator isn't really as terrible a fellow as he says he is. He is a rather valuable sort of snob...