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That whatever tends to develop the above qualities has a necessary place in Harvard life, and that whatever does not tend to those ends has no legitimate place and should either be changed or abolished...
...learn the theory of photography and to put it into practice is the lot of the photographic candidates. Assigned to take pictures of people and activities with cameras furnished by the department, they are then taught to develop, print, and enlarge them. Besides gaining a knowledge of photography, a pleasant pastime in itself, the candidates are, through their work, kept in touch with all the phases of life in the University...
...discussion of the work men come to college for, and which they so freely debate among themselves? If it be objected that undergraduate opinions on the courses of study they follow are of no account, cannot the rejoinder be offered. "Of what account then are the studies if they develop no worth-while opinion?" And the point may further be made, that it is important for college presidents to know what their students are thinking, even if what they think is wrong. Indeed, it is possibly more important, as evidence and indication, when it is wrong than when...
...most spectacular event of the strike was the sailing of the White Star Liner Majestic from Southampton. As the strike began to-develop, Americans in Europe were seized with a sudden and overpowering desire to go home. In a few days the bookings for the Majestic swelled from 1,700 to 2,300 -a. record number this year for the westward voyage. Bookings came in so rapidly that soon all accommodations were occupied. Men in'.the cloak and suit business who had been abroad buying and had to be back for fall openings, fell on their knees and implored...
...hoped, as dead as the contest between Science and Theology. No reasonable person in either camp doubts that both are essential elements in our civilization, that room must be found for both, and that boys and girls who have an aptitude for either must be given opportunities to develop in accordance with their abilities. . . The value of any element in education lies in its richness in ideas by which it strengthens and enlarges the mind. Science has such ideas in plenty; and History and Modern Languages; but none of these subjects has them more richly than the Classics. Their strength...