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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...letter accepting President Lowell's invitation, Cardinal Mercier said that he would regard it as an honor to "express his gratitude to the great institution which has borne witness to its lively sympathy for the University of Louvain." This refers to the fact that the University invited certain professors from Louvain to come to teach at Cambridge shortly after their own university had been destroyed by the Germans in 1914, as well as to the share which President Lowell and other Harvard men have had more recently in the work of the International Committee for the restoration of the library...
...misconception has provoked the spirited derision or the silent scorn of those famaliar with the facts. Acknowledging that the use of alcoholic stimulants had has a certain vogue at Harvard, they deny that it has been greater there than at other universities; and they contend that no one can tell whether its influence has been for good or evil. Alcohol has damaged some young men in college, no doubt,--though it would probably have damaged them just the same if they had never gone to college. That it has been an aid to others without doing them any harm...
...Union has been taken over directly by the College, and will be run by the College as a club for the University--a kind of junior Harvard Club; embodying, in many particulars, the organization as well as certain features of the Harvard Club of Boston. In the summer months the building has been thoroughly cleaned and painted, extensive repairs made, and its equipment modernized...
President Wilson is not alone in observing a certain recrudescence of dangerous influences in certain quarters. Enemy propagandists in American public institutions should be given short shrift whenever their iniquitous and sinister activities become evident...
...never have seen Harvard as it is in a normal fall term. For example, only the Senior Class will ever have attended a football game where there was organized cheering, for there have been no regular football games since that class entered its Sophomore year. There will also be certain important changes in the college itself. Athletics for Freshmen will be compulsory, according to the plan devised last spring by the Athletic Committee and approved by the Faculty and the Governing Boards in June. In addition, Harvard, which, during the war, trained so many infantrymen for the government, will...