Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...always one of restless inattention, made only the more restless and useless by conditions similar to those just mentioned. Whether or not tag-end days are theoretically as good for work as other days, the fact is that no man can make satisfactory use of them. Therefore, we think that we should not be required to wait over a Sunday for the formality of being dismissed according to rule nor called back on a Saturday for the pleasure of signing...
There are Sunday school men, and anti-Sunday school men, and just plain men who believe in Sunday schools. One would not suppose that men of these three types could have a common interest and yet each of them feel that it was his own particular interest. But we think that there is a triangular field of action that will fill the bill...
...Yard look green and beautiful, the buildings were built to hold recitations and students; and the paths, or places where there is no grass, were made to connect all the buildings, so that students could go from building to building easily. Some students don't know these things. They think that the grass was planted to prevent sore feet from walking on the hard paths. And they don't know that it is a sign of mental weakness to change their minds when half-way between two buildings and decide to go somewhere across the grass where they...
...good many of us. For several years after compulsory Chapel was abolished, such episodes might have been expected, for a reaction is normal after any ailment. Undoubtedly the next Count at Harvard will convulse us with tales of the present morning Chapel, or rather lack of it. But we think that the time is here of Harvard men to come to a realization of the fact that a happy medium is desirable. Therefore we say pathetic, humorous, and disgraceful...
...thing to do." We do blame the upperclassmen who allow this feeling to take root. Whether or not they know it, they are continually setting the standards towards which new classes will strive, and what they taboo new students will taboo. Originality is not so prevalent as some may think and is frequently snubbed when met. And so it rests with the serious-minded upperclassmen, particularly the men who have made good in the College world, to most one of the last shreds of Harvard indifferences. If these men would attend Chapel regularly, we are certain that an increasing number...