Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...finally, action such as was taken by 1916 Friday night should always be preceded by the sanction or subject to the reviewal of the Student Council. If that body is here for anything, it is to govern matters which deeply concern the undergraduates, but are not of commanding interest to the Faculty...
...that the question of living in the Yard next year is to be put officially before the class of 1914 for the first time. The benefits to be derived from uniting the class in Senior Dormitories no longer need discussion. The successful experience of three classes, and already the sanction of tradition have made the Senior Dormitory idea familiar to all men in College. Nevertheless, a certain amount of interest must be overcome and the details of the plan worked out. Each class entering the Yard has sought to do something toward improving the dormitories. Last year, it was proposed...
When the Student Council assumed responsibility for the Harvard University Register, it gave that volume a new sanction. The issue for 1912-13 records with remarkable completeness the University of today--governing bodies, members, scholars, athletes, clubs, fraternities, societies of every kind, whether in Harvard College or in any one of the graduate or professional schools. This volume furnishes for seventy-five cents information which may scarcely be had elsewhere at any price...
Continuing, he said that if service to one's fellow-man was to be the expression and fulfillment of one's religious nature, it must have behind it more than human sanction, there must be a spiritual as well as a human impulse. Not to serve is to die. Men grow dull, remote and old in the accumulation of riches or of knowledge which they do not share. That youth who is consecrated to this religion of service, giving himself to his God, as he finds God in his fellowmen, that youth is endowed with life's most durable...
...entries, together with the twenty-seventh annual interscholastic track meet scheduled for a week from tomorrow, point out one more way by which Harvard can strengthen the tie which binds it to the preparatory schools of the neighborhood. The tournament and the meet, receiving, as they do, the official sanction of the University, naturally form focal points upon which the interest of preparatory school athletes is centered. They are, therefore, essentially successful...