Word: bear
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...value of this Office cannot be over-estimated, for it brings the advantages of a college education within the reach of many men who are best able to profit by it but who are unable to bear the entire expense that it entails. Perhaps it is almost equally valuable as a branch of the University which, in a practical way, helps men to help themselves. Nor has efficiency been sacrificed in the desire to give a position to every applicant, as is proved by the fact that the number of positions at the disposal of the Office is constantly increasing...
Such statistics as these, especially when strengthened by the investigation made by President Lowell last year to ascertain the connection between College and Law School marks, hardly bear out the "undergraduate hallucination which assumes an entire absence of any connection between examination grades and post-collegiate success." The man who takes the view that studies are all that are worth while at College is doubtless narrow-minded, but, on the other hand, the man who fails to recognize the direct relation of studies to general capacity and effectiveness in after life is no less short-sighted...
...Breezeboro with convincing ease. Professor Winthrop, a part easily overacted, was presented by Mr. S. A. Eliot with most delicate skill. Take it all in all. it was a delightful evening and should place the Harvard Dramatic Club in the first rank among those organizations which are worthy to bear the name of the University, and with which it is a real distinction to be associated. ERNEST BERNBAUM...
...chosen and announced annually by a committee of the Department of English," will be given this year for a poem on any of the following topics: "Socialism," "William Makepeace Thackeray (born July 18, 1811)" and "Boston, as Seen from Harvard Bridge." No poem may exceed 50 lines: each should bear an assumed name, and should be accompanied by a sealed letter containing the true name and the assumed name of the author. The prize is open only to undergraduates of Harvard College...
...petitioners must bear in mind the following eligibility rules: All men who are candidates for the degree of A.B. or S.B. in 1911, all men who have received or will receive their degrees as of the class of 1911, and all men who are fourth-year special students will be eligible to vote, but no man who has voted in any previous Class Day election shall be eligible to vote. In addition, men now in the University not included under any of these qualifications, who entered with the class of 1911, and who are not officially registered with the class...