Word: touche
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there any objections that the University can raise against such a course? It may be claimed that the field is covered sufficiently as it is, but when there is no undergraduate course which does anything more than touch upon the subject, we do not call that sufficient. It cannot be claimed that the war is too recent to be fairly treated. So far as we know, the only objection is that the Faculty does not want a purely war course, that it does not want to give war such importance. If this had been a conflict in a far away...
...happen to be the weekly University preachers or not, is one to be decidedly encouraged. Especially should the committee in charge attempt to have the heads of the larger preparatory schools present, for often the college man, unable to return to school, would seize this chance to keep in touch with former interests. We understand that this custom has been in vogue in the past. We hope it will continue and the opportunities for meeting these men increase...
...should be of service both to its members and to the interests of the University. To young graduates, perhaps unable to afford membership in other social organizations, it will be a pleasant and inexpensive meeting-place and headquarters. Through it, older men will be better able to keep in touch with the University life, and will use it to entertain classmates and friends. To non-resident graduates it should be of inestimable value as a home on visits to Boston and Cambridge. Finally, with a well-appointed building and the inevitably stronger organization that must result, and with...
...Club's lead. Three distinct branches of activity, that are not often fully realized, lie open to the state and locality clubs at Harvard. First, they are in a position to keep students who come from the same state or section of the country in more or less constant touch with each other; secondly, by communication with the Harvard Clubs at home and by direct contact during vacation time with the Harvard graduates there, they can keep alive an interest about Harvard in their part of the country; and, thirdly, bring it about that the well known representative men from...
...state clubs are active, in the second a few, and in the third almost none. If each state club made it a point to secure one representative man each year to lecture under its auspices at Harvard, a great step would be taken toward bringing the University into touch with ideas from every section of the country, and also toward bringing all sections of the country better to know and understand what Harvard stands...