Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that time Juniors may file their applications. Unusually few members of the class of 1919 had, up to last night, complied with the request of their committee and the University authorities to provide for their own possible future needs by petitioning for these rooms; why, it is difficult to understand. Nine out of every ten men now in College have no definite idea of where they will be next fall. It is altogether within the bounds of possibility that a declaration of peace will make it advisable for the majority to return. In any event the College has offered every...
...ideal as at first it seemed. The work normally done then would merely have been shunted onto the other five days and we should have gained nothing. As far as saving fuel is concerned the Monday-vacation scheme would have been of no avail. The Yard, as we understand, is heated by excess steam from the Cambridge Power Plant, which would have to keep open anyway. We would have saved nothing there. Dormitories would necessarily be open and light and heat would be used as on other days...
...recent quadrennial conference of the Student Volunteer Movement held at Northfield during the Christmas recess, the policy was adopted "that New England college Christian Association leaders should challenge 200,000 students to study, understand and apply on campus, in the army and in the life of the nation and the world, Christian principles of world democracy...
...think that none of us, in these days, will feel inclined to prefer our own convenience to the general welfare. Neverthelss, small as the sacrifice may be, one does like to understand clearly to what end it is made. B. C. CLOUGH...
...matter of fuel conservation, as I understand, is in the hands of Mr. Storrow, and even though he may advocate "early to bed and late to rise"--"a surely ill-advised principle,"--so much as I dislike as a liberty-loving American, to be regulated under a rapidly tending Prussianistic system. I am nevertheless satisfied to leave it all to Mr. Storrow until he is proved incompetent...