Word: welling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...friend and contemporary. The Harvard Advocate, a policy has lately been developed which does not seem worthy of a Harvard publication. In entire disinterestedness we do not think it right for a paper which aims to represent, in some degree at least, the best undergraduate opinion as well as the best undergraduate literary ability at Harvard, to embark on a red-hot campaign of bitter personal invective against the President, no matter who he may be, of these United States. Whatever he has done or left undone, no American critic seriously doubts that President Wilson is striving today...
...does not lie in the Elective System itself, but in the necessity of choosing without sufficient information of the object of different courses and the manner in which they are to be treated; and, in the absence of any explanation by the College on this point, it would be well if the students who are acquainted with the courses would give a short criticism of such as are not likely to be understood by others, so that those who choose them may do so with the advantage of having their experience to guide them. The difficulty of which we speak...
...first, however, the Class Day ceremony was very simple, consisting of a dinner, an address, and the final fare well. As time passed, the celebrations became more elaborate. The dance around Rebellion Tree was started. Seniors began to entertain their friends with punch. Four years after the latter happening, the President found it necessary to convert the rejoicing into a "respectable entertainment." From then on the Yard was open to all friends of undergraduates. Ladies, young and old, were invited. It became customary to give spreads and there was much dancing in the Yard. The day was made doubly important...
Dartmouth has originated a course which the University would do well to duplicate. "Problems in Citizenship" has been formed because of the great popularity of its predecessor, dealing with problems relating to the great war. The new subject has been made compulsory...
...avoided. Such a course, however, under the Departments of History, Government, and Economics could not fall to be of immense value. College instruction is prone to be too theoretical, but the practical teaching of so vital a subject would fill a great need of the undergraduate. The well-known ability of the staffs of the departments of Government, History and Economics as well as the experience in actual problems which many of them gained during the present war would be certain to make the course popular. The University should not fail to introduce a subject which would be so instructive...