Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...especially for those willing to undertake new courses. We would call the attention of every man in the University to the opportunity the Prospect Union here offers. As a social service work it is interesting and stimulating. As practical field work in education it is invaluable. Finally, we think that any man who elects an instructorship in the Prospect Union will soon grow to recognize his course there as the most permanently valuable one he is "taking" that college year...
...other men to sit in their seats to prevent being marked absent, the reason why they will read off another man's paper in a test or even out and out 'crib' in an examination, is the same in each case. Because the rest of the undergraduates . . . do not think any the less of a man for doing one of these things. More often than not deceitful methods are merely considered clever or amusing. Harvard needs a sense of honor. How can it be obtained...
...training which a university affords is not the accumulation of a mass of miscellaneous knowledge and erudition, but a preparation for the outside world. And yet so many men persist in disregarding the one requisite which is the most beneficial in every-day life--the ability to talk. Think of a profession, a trade, an occupation in which the power to think on one's feet and the ability to express oneself are not of the utmost advantage. But the power of addressing an audience is only a side-issue. When a man is tossed into the rough-and-tumble...
...vigorous and magnetic atmosphere. The men from the various schools and colleges were a selected group, frankly and earnestly religious, but normally and intelligently so. The speaking was for the most part excellent; there was plenty of sport and recreation mingled with the Bible study and devotional meetings. I think every man who was there was glad that he had come and was the better and bigger for it. For my own part, I look forward immensely to going up to the conference again this year. A. P. FITCH...
President Lowell in reply said that he did not think the first bill would be countenanced, since it would discriminate between Harvard and other educational institutions in the same city. As to the second bill he agreed that if the University were a burden the Commonwealth should share it with the city, but this was disproved by the fact that President Maclaurin of Technology had received petitions from Cambridge citizens asking that the Institute settle here. They ask this in order to increase property values in the city...