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...Phillips Brooks House is a Harvard organization appealing to men of certain tastes and interests, just as do other groups in the University. It has a function of service to Harvard which will not be affected by a centralization of control within the walls of the House. Beyond these opportunities to aid the College, there is a definite task awaiting the workers of the House in the city of Cambridge, a genuine need of social work that may be met in part by such college men as care to offer themselves. The confining of the direction of Brooks House policy...
...meeting of the High Council, composed of the 63 Army commissioners, was called. It had never met before. Its sole function is to oust an unfit leader, choose...
...instructor for one year. This position is now held by Mr. D. W. MacKinnon. To maintain the present activity this instructorship is necessary. One man is enough to help conduct and superintend the work and he must be a man of talent; for certainly it is the prime function of a university to expose the student in as many ways as possible to as many men as possible of a high order of humanistic culture and creative conbusture...
...nature of scientific testimony phantasms have been promulgated with generous abundancy. Undoubtedly amidst the weeds there are to be found some flowers, but there is no telling one from the other and so criticism mows them down weed and flower alike. Certainly this state of affairs is more a function of the analyst than of the subject matter; for we have here a legitimate realm for disciplined inquiry...
...subjects that have the ingredients of liveliness; subjects that appeal to their imaginations. They have a special predilection for "new" subjects; and if a new subject, no matter what its nature, can start a young man on the road to the intellectual life it is fulfilling an important function. Discipline may be provided by other courses, physical chemistry...