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...Harvard Alumni Bulletin of March 26, Dr. Raphael Demos stresses the necessity of closer personal contact between professors and students. In doing so, he has voiced the greatest need of every freshman who, coming from a friendly preparatory school, is apt to find Harvard a vast cold place of fact and knowledge, where men are names and professors are far-away statues pedestaled on a lecture-room platform. In the mind of the newcomer there may arise the feeling that there is no one directly interested in him, no one to whom he can tie; he thinks himself a foundling...
...three conventional phrason...among the most popular of which is the saying that if an undergraduate takes part in extra-curriculum activities, he will "find himself." Of course, what happens to the undergraduate when he goes out for competitions is that he acquires a sort of polish by contact with other men, and in becoming conventional like his fellow undergraduates, learns to be more at case in their presence. A sensible person, on the other hand, does not worry about "finding himself," for he realizes that that in its literal sense, may take a great many years. Instead, he will...
...alumni are in close enough contact with University affairs ever to know all the facts. As a result the College's reputation has been smirched from time to time by the outspoken opinion of alumni who have had no way of checking up on things, and are yet represented as authorities by the press. The Committee on Relations with the Alumni seems the very cure for all this doubt and misapprehension...
...organized among those men who came out on the field and three ten-minute periods were played with the exceptional result of a 3 to 1 score. Scoring was enabled by the new safety zone of 18 instead of 20 feet and the enforcement of the rule concerning personal contact. Both Coach Mahan, who refereed, and the photographers expressed their satisfaction concerning the results of the afternoon's work...
...Presbyterian Church of New York. Under the curse of heresy, he leaves a pulpit where for six years he has preached with the bold courage of his broad convictions. Today he is probably the newest and the greatest force in modern religious thinking and as such he comes in contact with the stern limits of the Presbyterian dogma...