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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Musical Clubs by the Student Council and the action taken in definitely organizing them as an undergraduate activity is of undoubted value. The element of free competition, the absolutely democratic basis of choice prevailing in the clubs makes it possible to express unqualified approval of the institution particularly in view of the institution particularly in view of the fact that the musical clubs constitute one of the most efficient means of spreading Harvard influence...
After a good deal of discussion and speeches from a graduate's point of view by Mr. J. W. Farley '99 and Coach P. D. Haughton '99, it was unanimously voted, "that a committee consisting of at least three undergraduates and two graduates, with power to add to their numbers, be appointed by the Executive Committee to investigate the best methods for simulating the sentiment against probation; that for this purpose the Committee consult with the officers of the University and such other persons as it may deem best; and that this Committee report its recommendations to the next meeting...
...says, "Just to hear Professor Shaler, but it proved to be a 'New Heavens and a new earth'...The ideas which I got from Professor Shaler led to many other inquiries, and no one thing can ever happen to me so fortunately from an intellectual point of view, as happened when I took N.H.IV." It was not Natural History IV in itself which so inspired Mr. Baldwin, but Natural History IV as given by Professor Shaler. Two or three courses under the great teachers and men of the Harvard Faculty, unless their subjects are absolutely distasteful, will do more...
...much credit is due those who have persevered to the accomplishment of the undertaking. Sufficiently compact to be easily read through, while at the same time covering every important undergraduate interest, the volume is well adapted to serve its purpose of representing Harvard from a strictly undergraduate point of view. Attractive in general appearance, well illustrated, and with excellent reviews of all student activities from the pens of those undergraduates best qualified to discuss them, the book is well worth possession by every graduate and undergraduate...
Under the "College Comments" which follow are to be found several paragraphs discussing such well-chosen questions as "A Name for the New Lecture Hall" and "Yard Concerts" from a good sane point of view. The new Board is to be congratulated on producing an unusually good number in its first attempt...