Word: reference
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more deeply into the subjects in which he is interested. The Orals exist, then, for the purpose of making it necessary for every Harvard man to be able to read either French or German with such facility that, if the need arises, he will be able to refer to a work in French or German and get out of it the desired enjoyment...
Book reviews and editorials complete the issue. Mr. Dos Passos gives a review--or rather impression--of Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim," one of the most important books of the year. The editorial on the Dudley Gate is too cryptic for ready comprehension. Does it refer to the sculptured lines of verse on the two seats? If so, it is justified both in form and spirit...
...heading over your editorial "A Maxim Silencer" is also in bad taste for it goes far from silencing. Preparedness does not mean militarism. Let me refer you to the articles of William Howard Taft in the Saturday Evening Post of June 5 and of Thomas Edison in the New York Times of May 30. Both of these advocate large supplies of ammunition without militarism...
Your letter has come, and I am grieved at the feeling of irritation against Harvard that it shows. The poem and prize to which you refer I had never heard of until your letter came. On inquiry I find that it was a prize offered by the students for a student poem, a matter with which the authorities of the University can hardly interfere...
Full details are given of the "Harvard Trip to California" and there is a sensible article on "The Clubs and the University," which does not refer to the local sotto voce organizations, but to the graduate Harvard Clubs. The writer, J. D. Phillips '97, advocates the setting aside of a day when various Alumni Associations and clubs shall come to Cambridge to visit the University at work. He wants the day to be academic in its nature and only casually athletic or social. Dean Hurlbut has an article on "Conduct and Scholarship of the Year" taken from his annual report...