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...every year by a select body of men. Some few use it regularly without being members, though every means is taken to prevent it. The rest use it once in a while; and both seem to think it a joke, or think nothing about it. But mere thoughtlessness cannot explain it away, nor can it be given as an excuse." These men should be reached by Mr. Lunt's summing up of a true and remarkably well-written article--by the final paragraph in which he suggests that an attempt should be made to realize what Harvard would be today...
Opportunity will be given to every member of the University, who is interested in aviation, to become a charter member of the society. R. L. Groves '10 will preside and members of the organization committee will explain the purposes and outline the plans of the society. Officers for the current year and an executive committee will be elected...
...they had not been given such wide circulation we would regard these utterances as humorous; but so far as they may prejudice against Harvard the minds of unknowing persons they are altogether serious. In this community it is not necessary to explain the error of Mr. Chapman's attitude; the aims and methods of President Eliot and the Corporation stand above such reactionary attacks. Harvard men do not care whether their University has a few students more or less than any other institution in the land, except that large numbers offer large means for spreading and deepening Harvard influence...
Lieutenant Gammon went on to explain many of the customs prevalent in China today, the religious of the people, and the effect of modern civilization upon them. He closed by showing the change which the new awakening of the people is bringing about in the country and what education is doing for a nation, the masses of which look back thousands of years for their ideals of civilization...
...opinion, nothing has been accomplished by the undergraduate authorities, until it now seems too late for any mass-meeting or canvassing of the University. Why it is so easy at Harvard to arouse interest in a plan and so hard to get anything done, we do not venture to explain. All we can do is to try and keep the subject alive and to urge the members of the Junior class to make themselves famous next year by really starting the movement successfully...