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...cannot otherwise be attained. In recent years Harvard undergraduates, following the easiest course, have gradually turned over to the college authorities the management of the principal student activities, with the exception of class elections. Last fall's episode showed a surprising lack of interest in our only remaining student function...
...Agent was appointed to supervise the distribution of such pamphlets. On January 13, 1913, the Harvard University Press was formally established by the President and Fellows as a department of the University, and a Board of Syndics was appointed, a committee of seven professors and business men whose chief function is to pass upon the availability of manuscripts submitted for publication. In 1916 the business was removed from the very small quarters in the College Yard to Randall Hall...
...type, not distinctly pertaining to Harvard, such as "The Tavern in the Town", "Spanish Cavalier", and the like,--the Glee Club has no desire to cut short their deserved existence. It does not seem to be known that there is in the Club a committee of elected members, the function of which is to promote interest in college singing. It plans to arrange with the various class entertainment committees to have singing of these very college songs at the smokers; it furnishes a man to lead the singing; and it expects before long to have printed pamphlets containing words...
...sole reason for the existence of music is to bring pleasure to the hearers. What other purpose does it fulfill? When it ceases to bring pleasure, it no longer performs the function which is its only excuse for existing, and becomes to the hearer only a fatiguing succession of sounds...
...This is peculiarly the function of our School, as it is the only school in the country where the college graduate may get his business training among men of like maturity in a university operating its business school solely as a graduate school. We can hardly shirk the responsibilities so presented and provision should be made at once for such growth in numbers as the situation may lead to. The school must be equipped with an adequate building and an enlarged staff...