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...function of a university, according to Cardinal Newman, is intellectual culture"; its duty lies in educating the intellect to "reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and grasp it." But a university must of necessity be hampered by the fact has it is practically unable officially to present to its students the opinions of men who are the leaders in modern affairs. Of course it can, and does, provide lectures by competent professors on every phase of present-day problems; but much good may be gained by supplementing these lectures with discussions by men and women outside...
...management of the Union has acted upon the belief that the University should have some large social affair during the present football season. The fact that the ball at the Copley-Plaza before the Yale game last year was tremendously overcrowded, gives reason to believe that such a function here, even though conflicting with some Boston dance, would meet with distinct favor...
...Versailles Treaty; they feel that England has deserted them on the Polish question and has tricked them in the Near East; and they suspect Italy of too much friendliness for the Bolsheviki. Consequently until some general disarmament plan, such as the one proposed in the League convenant shall function, the government dares not discontinue the system of compulsory service,-they system which has cursed Europe and played no small part in making possible the World...
Social problems in Modern Literature. The general function of imaginative writing; a study of its typical uses, from the time of the French revolution to the present, as a reaction from and a corrective of certain social tendencies...
...brief, Brooks House is the clearing house by means of which the altruistic spirit of Harvard men is organized and given expression. Obviously such an organization cannot function properly without finances; hence the necessity for this week's campaign, which will be the only one this year. Brooks House makes no appeal for support on sentimental grounds. It does, however, expect that all Harvard men who believe in the work it has done and is doing shall support it generously...