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Today and tomorrow a large number of undergraduates will leave Cambridge for cities where just such organizations as these have been carrying on their work. Undergraduates must necessarily see the College from the undergraduate viewpoint, without being able to get a clear perspective of Harvard in its entirety. Those men who are going to distant cities have a peculiarly favorable opportunity to broaden their own views of the real significance and place of the University by contact with those graduates who have proved themselves the most loyal to Harvard, while at the same time bringing before the graduates the views...
...opening meeting, F. S. Converse '93, formerly professor of music in the University, now vice-president of the Boston Opera Company, will speak on "The Outlook for Opera in America from the Viewpoint of an American Composer." At succeeding meetings the operatic novelties to be presented by the Boston Opera Company will be discussed by well-known speakers and illustrated by prominent artists of the company. Among the works which will be taken up are Debussy's "L'Enfant Prodigue," Lafarra's "Habanera" and Rachmaninoff's "Der Geizige Ritter...
...belief in the unity of Harvard College is waning fast. The CRIMSON can think of no greater gift to Harvard than an increase in the requirements, that will assure once and for all the necessity of a four year course; this to be followed by a change in viewpoint among the powers that be, recognizing the pre-eminent position of Harvard College for which undergraduates yearn...
From the pecuniary viewpoint, he said, teaching is not a highly satisfactory profession, and one who goes into it as a life work must be content to draw his recompense partly from other sources than money. These are the respect in which the teacher is always held in a community, the affection of his pupils, and, in the case of the college professor, the sense of mastery of a particular subject; for to be a successful college teacher today involves a high degree of specialization...
Likewise, this change in viewpoint has resulted in changes in our religious thinking. Today a man should hold first and foremost in his ideals the welfare and salvation of the community in which he has been placed. The call of God to you is not so much to save your souls, but to strive to bring in God's Kingdom, as we think of it in Heaven, by ministering to the needs of our own communities. In this twentieth century, do not judge a man by what he thinks or feels but by what he is and is doing...