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Running reunions is the chief function of the six-man Permanent Class Committee which represents the class after graduation and includes the Class Treasurer and Secretary as ex-officio members...
...came to our next meeting at Phillips Brooks House, and with the air of a professional newspaper reporter whipped out a pencil and notebook. ten of us were seated at the round-table. Our Harvard junior manipulated his pencil. He never spoke. The function of a boll-weevil is not to speak but to bore. After the meeting members remarked to me that they were not being favorably attracted to the Harvard student. The impression which his notebook had made on me had not been entirely pleasant, but I reasoned that here was a student accustomed to take notes...
...earliest of the essays, "On the Study of Politics," an admirable confession of faith, goes back to 1926, and the latest, "The English Constitution and French Public Opinion, 1789-1794," is of 1938. The intervening studies, "Law and Justice in Soviet Russia," "The Judicial Function," "The Committee System in English Local Government," "Nationalism and the Future of Civilization," and "Mr. Justice Holmes," as well as the title essay, show the author's brilliant, liberal mind attacking a wide variety of problems. In only one case--the "Nationalism" speech--has he found it necessary to make some additions...
...then Vag wondered at the sensitivity and skill of the musicians. He watched them in fascination--the violinists and viola player holding their instruments tenderly and almost caressingly between check and shoulder, the cellist bending protectively over his cello. He marvelled at that unanimity which made them function as one man--as if some supernatural and awing force made the thoughts of each the common property of all. He felt that they must all be friends, close friends, that they must know each other as well as it is possible for one man to fathom another...
...liberal arts college finds itself frustrated, its own indecision about its proper function is to blame. Should it merely broaden the student's cultural background, or should it give him a thorough training in a special field? The liberal arts college does not know; it attempts both and succeeds in neither...