Word: true
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...manifested itself in what often amounts to popular resistance toward all but the most rudimentary of general educational training, and at the same time has, as we too are aware, kept down the salaries of school-teachers and college instructors to a shamefully inadequate level. This is chiefly true in the schools, both public and private, in which able and qualified men are only driven to accept so low a stipend as the school-teacher's because of physical infirmity or failure in business or other professional fields...
...CRIMSON, or whether it has merely been induced to espouse this new cause of the unknown proposers of the Harvard Daily. The complaints against the CRIMSON, undoubtedly supplied by the threatening journalists, have been enumerated in full, and the Harvard Magazine has taken up the cry in a true progressive spirit...
...primary purposes for which it was founded--hospitality. Its doors are always open to members of the University and their guests; and hundreds of men in the military and naval service of their country can testify to the welcome accorded them in the past two cars. It has been true in the past that many of those men active in the affairs of the Association have seen little or nothing of the House itself. Tonight the serious aspects of work are to be left behind. The object of the meeting is to create a warmer sympathy between the members...
Next month the Seniors will celebrate the first true commencement since that of June, 1916. Many of the old practices are happily,--and unfortunately done away with. The Seniors no longer dance around the Class Tree, the Ivy Orator has nothing to do with the planting of vines; the ugliest man in the class is no longer presented with a jack knife. We trust, however, that the spirit is much the same today in the University as it was in the College of a century...
...grateful for the poem. The same difficulty with external form bothers the author of "Ghosts", and the reader is jolted out of whatever enjoyment he might derive from this treatment of an old theme. "The Gallows Thing" is the most satisfactorily executed poem in the number, and rings true as some of the other scattered verse does...