Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...wishes to express to President and Mrs. Lowell the gratitude of the undergraduates for the cordial reception which they extend to the student body on Sundays. It costs no little sacrifice to give up the best part of every Sunday afternoon, and we wish President and Mrs. Lowell to know that their hospitality has not passed unrecognized...
President Eliot then spoke of the ballot now in use. It is so long that it is impossible for any voter to know all candidates and to vote with judgment and discrimination. The best movement now before the country is that instituted by the Short Ballot League...
Another great advantage in this system to the average Freshman is the fact that he will see a large number of men at close range and will have the opportunity to pick out those whom he wishes to know without being obliged to rub too closely against those for whom he has no sympathy. It would also have the effect of shortening the time taken in developing the Freshman into the man, by giving him the chance to mix with a great number of his kind. By throwing every one together the new system will give the shy, diffident...
There is no question that members of the upper classes should have every opportunity for meeting and getting to know well as many Freshmen as possible. It is also entirely natural that the Freshmen themselves, in view of the size of the present classes, should form groups on the basis of congeniality and community of interests. But is it not necessary that a collection of Freshmen for either of these purposes should bear the reputation, whether deserved or not, that the Polo Club now has. The life of that organization can be terminated easily and quietly by its past members...
...these fields, as well as in the capacity of editor and author, his life was constructive and his work full of human sympathy. Harvard has lost a devoted scholar, learned not only in the classics, but keenly alive to contemporary activities. It is difficult for those who did not know him to appreciate how deeply his death will be felt...