Word: comments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amid a rising storm of comment, Rector Blackshear stuck to his announcement, explained he had done it as a matter of "church policy" and as a "friend to the Negro race." Reasons he gave were: "I do not wish to take support from the two churches for colored people in the neighborhood. Furthermore, in these congregations Negroes can develop their power of leadership, whereas in white congregations they are bound to be subdued...
...sense to remove all technical necessity for the detailed promulgation of the plans for the individual units. But after all, Harvard men both present and prespective have a desire to know how the Harvard of the future is going to look and to be allowed a chance to comment upon it before all possibility of revision is closed. While satisfaction for this desire may not, in a legal sense, be demanded as right, a larger view of the situation places their interest above the category of a mere privilege to be granted or refused at the will of those...
Editorial comment is universal in decrying any interested attempt to block a parley which seemed to promise a long step on the road to universal peace. It is hard to see how any intelligent opinion can fail to repudiate such small minded paltering with matters so vital to humanity as a whole, but it is still too early to make specific charges. In a social system which depends so entirely upon the integrity of big corporations, even the most radical can derive but a sad sort of pleasure in a gleeful "I told you so" when big business is cast...
...best of our recollection Mr. Schwab and I were not conscious of the existence of William B. Shearer prior to December 1927, when we were asked to comment...
...method of grading not only, but also to the choice of reading and the method of conducting section meetings. I have also made some changes in the subjects and arrangement of the lectures. If you are planning to issue a guide to courses this Fall or other systematic comment on the instruction offered by the University, 1 should appreciate an opportunity to explain these proposed changes more in detail to a member of your Board. Sincerely yours, Arthur N. Holcombe...