Word: microcosm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...less smoking and pool-playing, and less purchasing of reading matter as well. The returns are from the Harvard Union, and they may simply be taken to indicate a decline in the patronage of that large and democratic social organization. But the Union is representative of the undergraduate microcosm. Life in the larger world is more serious than it was before August, 1914. "The cigarette," wrote George Frederick Watts, "is the handmaid of idleness," and the diminishing consumption of cigarettes may mean that Harvard less faithfully answers the often quoted definition of the visiting Chinese savant who wrote, "They have...
...Chinese Students' Club. Here are the records of honors and academic distinctions, the lists of club members, the athletic records. A glance at the index (a very full and careful one) shows a broadening variety of clubs, societies, fraternities, associations, conferences. This University of ours is a cosmopolitan microcosm, in which every sort of interest has its representation and every kind of person will find congenial associates. The Register is a pathfinder...