Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first, to give a dramatic representation of the method and spirit that exist at the Assembly and Council at Geneva, and second, to form a new and interesting type of debating society in which a certain reality is given discussions of international problems since the students debate from the view points of the nations that they represent...
...light of the fact that competition with other colleges has appeared in the past a desirable stimulus to undergraduate athletic interest, this second point supporting the Corporation's plan may be thrown out at once. Whereas an income-bearing endowment which would be established with a view to making Harvard athletics independent of paid admissions is a pleasantly Utopian scheme, a capital improvement such as the erection of a thoroughly complete gymnasium should legitimately be considered a part of an institution's complete endowment. The situation may then be seen to resolve itself into a question of which of these...
...wishes by pressure from the Corporation. The doings and deliberations of this body are always cloaked in obscurity and the motivation of its decisions not always apparent. In the present instance, the Corporation's reluctance to let the H. A. A. spend its own money seems unusually inexplicable. In view of the fact that this tightening of the purse strings is likely to affect the bodily welfare of a large share of the student body, it is necessary that a more adequate explanation be given than...
...been busy making composographs and very good composographs they have turned out to be. There is something bold and fine in the conception of a pair of apteryxes defying gunners on the top of the chimneys of the Cambridge Gas Company. There is a charming and not heavily exaggerated view of the Cape Cod Canal; and the aviation photographs strike a not which is but seldom sounded in the current rotogravures...
...assembly and stressed the fact that the assembly was not being organized merely for the purpose of dramatizing the procedure of the League but rather to discuss subjects of international scope from the viewpoints of the different nations with foreign students presenting their opinions from the point of view of their respective governments...