Word: views
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Yesterday the CRIMSON pointed out what it believed were the limitations to Harvard's national character from an undergraduate' point of view. We stated that the best way to appeal to the kind of western men who will give our undergraduate community a more national scope than it now has, is by a gradual invasion of the more distant communities by the undergraduates themselves...
...main purpose of the trip is to arouse interest among the graduates of the nearby states in the musical activities at Harvard, in this, the centennial year of its existence. It has a threefold object in view, to stimulate interest in the Department of Music, and in the John Knowles Paine Memorial Building, which is being planned as musical headquarters for the University, and finally in the centennial celebration of the Pierian Sodality to be given by the centennial orchestra...
...second article on this burning topic is the Editional, and it is a sensible piece of writing, whether looked at from the undergraduate or the Faculty point of view; for it will hardly be denied by the most ardent opponent of "two numerous intercollegiate contests" that in common fairness the large undergraduate body is entitled to know where it stands in fact, with respect to the sports in which it takes so deep an interest...
...this difference of point of view, but in relation to the larger outside world, Professor Zueblin stands for the side seldom presented from platforms of this University. Just as undergraduates believe that the undergraduate community should be an organized unit, Professor Zueblin believes that society at large is an organized whole. Right or wrong, the view is one which, in its relation to the history that is making in this country today, must at least be considered. And a more delightful exposition of it than Professor Zueblin's it would be hard to find...
...possible to secure his opinion until late last month, when he approved the plan. However, after examining the detailed design of the clock, which came last week, the Corporation voted against placing a clock on University Hall for fear that it might deface the building. In view of this action, the committee felt that it was now too late after the John Harvard celebration to begin work again on a new form of a memorial, and they therefore recommended that the plan be dropped...