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...last, after considerable delay, that publication which with the years has grown more and more an essential part of the life of Harvard, the University Register, has made its appearance. Its lateness may lessen its chance for usefulness, but early or late the volume will be gladly and eagerly received by the University community. It is a real necessity for anyone who would keep in close touch with student affairs even though this year there is lacking the geographical directory of students...
...lunch. San Francisco had bid $200,000 to Manhattan's $150,000. The other contesting cities were Chicago and St. Louis. After lunch the Committee reassembled. Each of the cities was allowed 25 minutes to present its case. Manhattan was last in order. Acting Mayor Hulbert said: "We have grown to be a cosmopolitan city of 6,000,000 people." Judge O'Brien said: "We are prepared to increase our offer by $55,000, which makes the cash offer $205,000." (Swope had been goading the wealthy and public-spirited Rick-The Committee took three roll calls. On the first...
Like tennis, squash raquets was introduced to this country from England; and like tennis, it has not been immediately accepted, but has slowly grown more and more popular. Tennis, when it achieved general recognition in the colleges, immediately became the most important minor sport. It shook off, to a great extent, the connotation of pink teas and cookies; it overcame the objection to the expense and location of courts, and it gained major sport letters for its champions. This is the road which its winter cousin has before it, and on which it has made a good start...
...misplaced idealism in the emotional stress of the war." I have a vague notion that if I could grasp the meaning of that phrase, I should most certainly disagree with it. Pacifism, in some cases, may have been used as a cloak to hide cowardice but it has grown out of clear-cut, highminded thinking and has been fostered by a greater courage and a more noble...
Harvard is not Godless at heart, but rather camouflages with a cloak of godless-appearing Harvard Indifference a Christian spirit. As we have grown, and discarded other antiquated ideas, so should we now lay aside this attitude of indifference assumed when "Harvard had progresed toward godlessness and heterodoxy...