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...Problems Concern Whole World
Further instructions as to Spreads on Class Day both in the Yard and in Dormitories have been issued by the Class Day Committee. The new instructions concern the rules for caterers and the special Parietal Regulations for Class...
...speculate on the old fellow's probable age and wonder vaguely why the University hasn't pensioned him long since. But he will not concern himself further. Most of us look with questioned approval on University business methods, but we all place implicit trust in the sense of justice of the authorities of a place like Harvard. And so the passing Harvard man will take it for granted that what is, is right, and the old man should be there working as he is day after...
...forgets that however fine abstract memories may be, and however eager the University is to express its gratitude in the most ideal terms, still there is a higher ideal--the humanitarian. To perpetuate the Past is a purpose with which college men will sympathize; but the more immediate concern must rightly be the Future. There are crying needs in the University which must be met at once it the great traditions and purposes of Harvard are to be upheld. Surely it is finer, without neglecting the idea of the memorial, to combine it with something that can at the same...
...Louvain. These other drives, worthy enough in themselves, have not been ones in which we could take personal interest; the present fund is one to which we can give with the knowledge that our small share will be used for a purpose in which we have a particular concern. The idea of the colleges of America joining to rebuild that great library of Belgium is appealing in itself; no one with a grain of sentiment or a spark of gratitude to Belgium could refuse...