Word: whether
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last settled that the Freshman relay team will meet the Yale freshmen in the annual race at the B. A. A. games on February 7. There had been some uncertainty as to whether Yale would send a Freshman relay team to Boston this year owing to lack of material, but all doubt was dispelled by a letter received yesterday by Manager C. G. Squibb, promising definitely that the Yale freshman team will compete. On the same night, the University 390-yard team will race Cornell, and the 780-yard team will race Yale...
...arguments may be quoted as throwing light upon a custom the defense of which nearly all declare is not to be based on "traditional" grounds. One professor thinks horsing out of accord with Princeton democracy: "Every man should stand in Princeton for what he is, unaffected by the question whether he has been here a year or a week." Another says...
...Harvard, for more than a generation, has prided itself justly on the perfect freedom of the individual enjoyed by everyone within its walls, whether students or members of the Faculty. This spirit of individualism is very much in evidence in every part of the University, whether in the Yard, the dormitories, or the Harvard Union. In every classroom one becomes immediately connections of an atmosphere of strong, independent thought, of a critical, analytical spirit of challenge, of an almost self-assertive pride of unshackled, fearless, intellectual freedom. The effect of this atmosphere is of course most stimulating. Many...
...well be sceptical as to the probable results of such efforts though admiring their purpose. "The transformation of the spirit of a great university is a great task, and the larger part of this task must be done by the students themselves. It may fairly be questioned whether Harvard students are prepared to help create that common college spirit that demands more or less of conformity: whether they are prepared to sacrifice any considerable amount of that precious freedom of the individual which has its great virtues as well as its defects...
...Whether or no there may not exist a defect in this quality of fellowship, in a possible tendency towards a too great suppression of individual personality through conformity to common college standards, is a question a newcomer is hardly competent to answer. One thing he can unhesitatingly affirm is his keen appreciation of the spirit of fellowship as contrasted with the spirit of individualism...