Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...College would purchase six leather chairs, provided the treasury could afford it. Mr. Matthews then told of the real start of the University, when John Harvard's bequest of $3,900 and his library enabled the institution to get on its feet. Although in those days boys as young as twelve often came to college, the entrance requirements were far from easy. To be admitted one had to be able to read and speak Latin and Greek, to compose Latin verse, to be well instructed in mathematics and philosophy, and to be "blameless in acts and conversation...
Business Manager.--R. Young '16, Matthews...
...Poetry Society will hold its first social meeting today in the Advocate Sanctum on the third floor of the Union at 4 o'clock. Robert Frost, a rising young American poet, will read selections from his own writings. He is a native of New Hampshire and his book on northern New England called "North of Boston" has been pronounced by critics as among the leading works of the day. His other book, "A Boy's Way" has also gained much favor both in England and America. Mr. Frost has left his farm in New Hampshire in order to deliver lectures...
...title role is one of extraordinary difficulty, for it is almost as hard to find a prima donna whose character lends itself to this part as to find a young man who can act Hamlet. Mme. Gay, however, made up for what freshness, color and tone she may lack by a thoughtful and effective study of the part. Fortunately avoiding any wild excesses of passion, she differed from Farrar's interpretation by giving Carmen more restraint and treachery...
...young Harvard men do not ask ourselves and our elders these questions, If we are content to have the same type of thought served up to us in our own University daily paper as is provided in any of the commercial press, then we deserve to be turned out by a highly efficient machine as "highly specialized experts" able to destroy the works of civilization, but utterly incapable to achieve either physical, mental or spiritual construction on new and really democratic lines . . . "Where there is no vision, the people perish." LEON SHERMAN PRATT 1Dv. W. HARRIS CROOK...