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...ideal of a college that gives training for character as well as for mind, the tutoring school, so-called, has no place. A college can not do its best work if it counts among its students any considerable proportion of mental cripples, whether they be cripples by birth or by acquisition. Unfortunately there are both kinds here--and, more unfortunately still, the tutoring schools are doing their best forcibly to thrust this state of mental incapacity upon the rest. And it is due to this fact that the present situation exists: where the college wants tutors--must have them--, wants...
...nature. They believe that a memorial should exist for its own sake; its primary purpose should be to keep before the minds of Harvard men the sacrifices made by their fellow-students and graduates in the War, and they fear that a dormitory, gymnasium, or auditorium would obscure the ideal for which it was erected. Therefore they conclude that something in the nature of an ornamental monument, a belfry, or a new chapel would be the only suitable memorial...
Such an opinion is quite understandable; in fact it expresses a noble ideal, and since the committee is in an influential position, its words must be heeded. Unfortunately, to our way of thinking, the conception of such a memorial seems to indicate a confusion of relative values. In the fear of putting utilitarian motives uppermost, the committee goes too far to the other extreme, and forgets that however fine abstract memories may be, and however eager the University is to express its gratitude in the most ideal terms, still there is a higher ideal--the humanitarian. To perpetuate the Past...
...monument or a chapel. Harkness at Yale, the Walker Memorial at Technology, and our own library, are all examples of highly utilitarian buildings which never lost sight of the memorial purpose for which they were erected. As long as the CRIMSON believes that undergraduates, at least, favor the practical ideal rather than the abstract, it will earnestly continue to support the proposal for a memorial dormitory. Meanwhile, expressions of opinion from others will not be unprofitable...
...country. In one of its most attractive bays the conference grounds are located. Every facility for recreation of all kinds and all the material equipment for a large gathering are there ready for the use of the six to eight hundred college and, university delegates. The setting is ideal and its charm is immediately apparent...