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...insure the collection of a sum which will approach the needs of the occasion, we would suggest that the uniform amount given be $1 per person. Whatever support the University and its guests sees fit to give, however, it is certain that no support could be given to a worthier cause. E. W. MAHAN '16. C. A. COOLIDGE '17. M. WIGGIN...
...contrary ideals may be followed in the publication of such magazines. That which the three Harvard magazines follow is that the practice which is given to young writers warrants the existence of as many papers as can support themselves. The other ideal, a worthier one in our opinion, is that any article of any kind is not worth publishing simply for the sake of giving practice and encouragement to writers. The production of one undergraduate magazine which should represent the combined efforts of all students ambitious to write, which should aim at something beyond the goal of bare self-support...
...side of a man's nature, if, after making a reasonable appeal to him not to abuse a privilege, one has to resort to the only alternative, that of taking it from him. In this case, however, he is depriving not himself alone, but many others a great deal worthier than he. Yet unless the better element in Memorial Hall can succeed in overcoming this objectionable tendency on the part of the others, prohibitory measures must be adopted. The warning of what may happen ought to be sufficient to guarantee that there will be no further abuse of the present...
Could there be a worthier memorial monument of any man who cared for the advance of truth than a library such as that which the university should have...
...sermon was an exposition of how hard and persistently people work to attain low ends and to what an extreme they carry worldly lives; and ended with an exhortation to extend those energies in a worthier and higher cause. The story of the unjust steward was cited as a proof of how far worldliness may be carried when resolved to attain its end, and the history of the years of laborious and painstaking work of the Eastern dancing girls was given as an example of how hard people do strive for success in the lower grades of life. Then another...