Word: though
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Thus far in the several "drives" for endowment funds the alumni of each institution have collectively assumed the debt, thereby declaring a gratitude for professorial admonitions which they scarcely felt in their undergraduate days. A correspondent yesterday gave evidence that the mellowing fingers of time have touched others equally. Though he went into business without a college course, and prospered, he is not one of those who glory in being "self-made," but has always regretted his loss...
Candidates will be given a second opportunity to try out for the Pierian Sodality, at the Music Building tonight at 7.30 o'clock. Brasses are especially desired though players of all orchestral instruments are needed. The Sodality will hold rehearsals twice a week in preparation for a series of concerts, culminating at the end of the season with a performance in Sanders Theatre...
Nowadays when one encounters people who are in a reposeful state of mind about anything, they excite one's interest, even though they may not be either congenitally or congenially interesting. Among the few groups that are resting easy in a serene consciousness of good work well done, with not much more to do, is the fraternity or the sorority, of those who feel that they have at last helped to make the colleges safe for the young man. That a college is a wild and wicked place, and that of all colleges Harvard has been for years the wildest...
...alcoholic stimulants had has a certain vogue at Harvard, they deny that it has been greater there than at other universities; and they contend that no one can tell whether its influence has been for good or evil. Alcohol has damaged some young men in college, no doubt,--though it would probably have damaged them just the same if they had never gone to college. That it has been an aid to others without doing them any harm a good many Harvard men will stoutly assert. They remember friendships that originated and received a glowing impulse over a bottle...
...Union is hardly recognizable. It seems almost as though an entirely new building had been erected. But the reformation does not stop with the many improvements and additions,--it goes far deeper in its plans to co-operate with the wishes of the University students...