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Students will soon be actually playing tennis on Sunday; clanging trolley-cars will destroy forever the sacred quiet of Brattle street itself. It may even happen that those gentle hurricanes of dust in Harvard square will yield to the unctuous persuasion of a modern water-wagon, and the secluded dusk of our streets will be lightened by the brazen rays of a real are-light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAREWELL, CAMBRIDGE! | 11/18/1916 | See Source »

...profess. Our spirit of loyalty must be felt within and without the College itself, co-operation is as valuable in ideals as in business. Boston papers are daily publishing articles, seemingly unrelated the one to the other, rather contrary to the Harvard spirit of open-mindedness, and tending to destroy some of our internal loyalty between the Faculty and the student, or perhaps within these respective groups themselves. The principle of fair play is fortunately very prominent here in Cambridge. These articles which appear to have sprung up like mushrooms over night and without visible origin or reason, have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications | 10/23/1916 | See Source »

...with aggression. Most of the so-called "militarists" agree that it is not only wicked but stupid to punish either a man or a nation for disagreeing with what we consider orthodox political principles. But when our opponent's particular variety of heresy leads him to invade our territory, destroy our property, and kill our citizens, we believe that a machine-gun will come in handier than a copy of "Briefs for Debate...

Author: By F. SCHENCK ., | Title: Current Monthly Reveals Alertness | 5/9/1916 | See Source »

...should be a community product, and that as such it is the highest expression of public emotion. He is not in favor of the single lead "star" system which tends to develop a one-sided drama. Nor does he approve of the long engagement as tending to destroy the art of the theatrical profession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH PRODUCER OF THE THEATRE OF TODAY | 11/30/1915 | See Source »

...questions, If we are content to have the same type of thought served up to us in our own University daily paper as is provided in any of the commercial press, then we deserve to be turned out by a highly efficient machine as "highly specialized experts" able to destroy the works of civilization, but utterly incapable to achieve either physical, mental or spiritual construction on new and really democratic lines . . . "Where there is no vision, the people perish." LEON SHERMAN PRATT 1Dv. W. HARRIS CROOK...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/12/1915 | See Source »

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