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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Tonight's gathering in Phillips Brooks House marks the close of the work of the Association during the past college year. But in a larger sense it means more. The men who have been contributing their time and service to the many and varied subsidiary organizations are to meet for a good time in the House of the parent association. It is an opportunity for those who have been devoting their interest in a special field to meet on a common ground many other undergraduates and alumni who are actively working along different lines but with the same ideal...
...service of their country can testify to the welcome accorded them in the past two cars. It has been true in the past that many of those men active in the affairs of the Association have seen little or nothing of the House itself. Tonight the serious aspects of work are to be left behind. The object of the meeting is to create a warmer sympathy between the members and a greater sense of personal allegiance to Phillips Brooks House self...
...face of such records, certain truths must be deduced. There must be something in the atmosphere created at Harvard which stimulates men's minds to do big things. Unconsciously, the idea scoffed at by many people, forces are at work continually around us which make for the production of great and brave men. And the reason Harvard is such a good training ground is because it is an exact replica, on a small scale, of the outside world. Here one meets all the outward indifference that one finds when he starts in on a business career. Here one can make...
About a year ago the Congress of International Students originated as the International Circle of Men and Women Students, and was announced in American college and university newspapers at that time. During the war, it was active in the work of organizing the different national groups, and in publishing magazines and bulletins of information. The end of the war has made possible a more active and intensive improvement toward establishing closer relations between the student bodies of the different nations...
...boasts one of the finest educational plants in the world. Within a space of time measured not merely by months but by weeks, army engineers have succeeded in converting army stores and supplies into a vast collegiate equipment including laboratories, gymnasium, class and demonstration rooms, as well as vocational work-rooms of many sorts, all in a surprisingly short space of time. Although semi-permanent in character, this equipment is amazingly complete. Barring the 60,000 text-books and 40,000 books which comprise the Library, nothing has been sent from this side of the water. Without aid from home...