Word: western
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...these the undergraduates will agree heartily; but there is another consideration, probably the most important of all in determining our ability to draw students from distant states, that the graduates are too much inclined to overlook. As affairs stand today the western man is at a great disadvantage in the undergraduate community, partly because he is not known by preparatory school connections. The disadvantage is by no means insuperable--indeed it is easily overcome by a man of some congeniality and the average amount of energy...
Undoubtedly the remedy for a state of affairs, whose existence to some extent we must admit, lies in a dignified appeal to the men whose presence here will give the undergraduate community a truly national scope. The more western men we get of the right stamp, the greater will become our prestige; not only among the graduates, but among the sub-freshmen, who will learn through their Harvard friends of the overwhelming advantages of the life at this University...
Toward this end we believe the University is following the proper course. Trips by professors and speeches at western Harvard clubs bring loyalty to the hearts of graduates and increase our academic reputation; but in no way can the younger generations be reached, except by an actual invasion by the undergraduates themselves. Their testimony on the breadth of opportunity involved in four years of life at Harvard will be heard by the younger generations, who, after all, are the ones we need most to reach...
...system at Memorial Hall, which will be on trial for the next month, was started yesterday. Six tables at the western end of the hall have been reserved for transient members, and the accommodations will be increased with the demand. A small number of new members and a few of the old members are already on the transient list. One hundred men took advantage yesterday of the rebate allowed for Sunday absence...
...first of these was necessary to the maintenance of the status quo in the countries of the western Mediterranean and the eastern Atlantic. The Algeciras conference, although it has by no means yet solved the Moroccan question, has put Spain in a better position than any it has occupied since the war with the United States...