Word: cannot
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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...
...animated by the same purpose, they have sought their end in different ways. Some have founded scholarships, some have given direct aid, and some have exerted their influence towards giving high school men an idea of the nature and the advantages of Harvard. The value of this national movement cannot be overestimated, and it is one of the greatest tributes that the graduates can pay to the College...
...this would only be because the merits of the old wit had been dimmed by the new. The thoughts that flow like the Charles River, the feather boa with which Boston can see nothing the matter because "It's the same that she's always worn," "the Unitarian who cannot be effectually told to go to the devil," the ghosts of the Beacon Hill mansion who will speak only to legitimate descendants, the "not perceptibly running" Cambridge cars, and the undergraduate who likewise was "not perceptibly" attending Professor Winthrop's course--these hits will not soon be forgotten. When...
...shouldered, and those who have shown the most enduring as well as the keenest interest in the welfare of the class. In order to insure the choice of real leaders, around whom the class can rally to a man, everybody should vote. If these principles are followed, Class Day cannot fail to be successful, and 1911 will do its share in the ranks of the alumni...
...other hand, the boarding-school graduate measures his success as an undergraduate by the prominence which he attains in fields of activity which are not purely scholastic. Consequently men of this group play the greater part in the broadening "outside interests"; and naturally enough do not or cannot devote as much time to their courses as those who strive primarily for academic honors. Both undergraduate elements evince the same fundamental purpose, namely--to "make good," but because of differing standards the means employed and ends sought are widely divergent...