Word: vanness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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While the university's place is in the van of progress, her work is advisory not directory. She can maintain her high place only by the careful notice of change and appreciation of conditions. If she is sluggish, men will go elsewhere for their ideals; if she caters too readily to the impatient haste of the day, men will no longer be inspired by her. The importance of keeping their curriculum in complete accord with the temper of the age merits this arduous task before the universities...
There is now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum an interesting collection of original drawings by old and modern masters. The exhibit includes works by important artists of different schools. Among the artists represented are Whistler, Burne-Jones, Turner, the two Behams, Schauffelein, Altdorfer, Van Dyck, Rubens, Jordaens, Claude Loraine and Rodin, Tintoretto, Correggio, Giulio Romano, and Guardi...
Original drawings by Whistler, Rodin, Turner, Van Dyck, Rubens, and others are included in the exhibition which will open tomorrow afternoon in the Fogg Art Museum. This is one of the most notable of exhibitions which has ever been held at the Museum, and it will continue till April...
...there be any doubt that the literary situation at Harvard, as regards undergraduate effort, is badly in need of re-vivification? For several years the Advocate has consistently failed to live up to its splendid traditions and unequalled opportunities. The shades of Aiken, Van Wyck Brooks, Sheldon, Biggers, Hagedorn, Ficke, and others, have hovered in vain. At their best we have had only dilettantism; at their worst puerility; and throughout this period of decadence a continual subservience to the vapid social and political aims of the editors. And by some irony of Fate this paper has lived when the Monthly...
...Macy, Jr., chairman, and Miss Woods, G. R. Brown and Miss Haines, H. McK. Erb and Miss Grinnell, W. McH. Keyser and Miss Mabon, J. G. King, Jr., and Miss King, E. Van R. Stires and Miss Homer...