Word: whether
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...willfully careless. We all feel subconsciously that college work does not count so much now. It is a natural feeling, but it is none the less fallacious. Study is difficult, but it is more important than it has been for years. And so we demand from you, Mr. Undergraduate, whether you are hoping to be in service soon or not, that you do your utmost. Those who are on probation may have arrived there through excusable sins, but they deserve to be treated with gloves no longer. They are a disgrace to a Harvard attempting to give its best...
...enforced in athletic contests this spring clears the atmosphere in regard to this difficult question. That the members of our teams must be on the same basis of training and hours of practice as their opponents has always been an accepted conclusion. The chief source of discussion--whether or not undergraduates must be enrolled in some military or naval course in order to be eligible for athletics has now been settled affirmatively...
...been frequently argued that each individual should have the right to judge whether there might not be some excellent reason for his not joining a college training unit. Such a man, it was said, should not be deprived of the privilege of athletic competition when he was preparing himself for service other than military. The answer to this theorem is a perfectly logical one; it is impossible to distinguish between patriots and slackers. No undergraduate or graduate wants to see the University represented by any man who is not doing his utmost toward his future usefulness...
...Whether or not it will be found possible to issue the University Register next year can not now be determined, but the new board will go ahead with its work on the assumption that the publication of the volume will be practicable. In that case competitions for positions on the board, to which Freshmen and Sophomores, and possibly Juniors, will be eligible, will be held in the fall...
...Bacon, who contributes two sketches, is lively, direct, at times imaginative, but he has not yet developed a sense of form, and he seems to waver between realism and "reelism," unable to decide whether to take himself seriously or to parody his own style...