Word: concerning
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...devoted to football. The leading article, however, is by ex-Governor Guild, "Should Men Join Political Parties?" Governor Guild argues that every man should be an active politician and that it is only by means of party that practical results can be obtained. In so far as the arguments concern the active politician they are valid, but Mr. Guild has not noticed or does not mention that the old-fashioned party man has passed away and that the average man now votes with out side and then again with the other to a degree hitherto unknown...
...convey a sense of sadness. Professor Neilson's appreciation of Mr. Hagedorn's important volume "A Troop of the Guard" is sympathetic and just. The review of Mr. Zangwill's "Melting Pot" is discriminating. Evidently, the prose in the number is alive with interest in matters of present concern within and without the College world...
...basketball is rated more highly than at Cambridge, as a consequence of which the games were usually one-sided. When they played in the Hemenway Gymnasium, Harvard men turned out in very small numbers and the team undoubtedly felt that to many of the undergraduates it was no great concern whether they won or lost...
Perhaps, after all, our chief ground for complaint is that these things which so intimately concern our daily life do not come up to the standards that we have about us. If we contrast our Yard dormitories and our Gymnasium with our athletic field, our boathouses, the Law and Medical School buildings, and the Union, we recognize at once their inadequacy...
...those whose enterprise furnished the material for such a description. Undoubtedly the position formerly held by classical studies and literature is now coming to be held by the political and social sciences in all our American universities. The "new humanities," as these studies are coming to be called, concern themselves, as did the old humanities with the strivings of the human spirit, but with its strivings after justice rather than beauty. That Harvard students are awake to these interests, as well as to the problems of physical science, and are doing self-organized work in this direc- tion, is shown...