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...stand of the English archers against wave after wave of the French chivalry. All of this is unessential from the modernist point of view. The student will learn what the issue was, fought between a handful of men, and what the result. But the players in the drama are non-existent and it is the players who make the story...
...them from preachers and administrators, from Jew bailers and from sentimental philo-Semites. But they have a meaning which as Americans we have yet to penetrate. We cannot have tolerance until we recognize the real issues involved, until we perceive why social and ethnic prejudices persist, why Jew and non-Jew cannot get together and have "plain talk and high thinking" without being hampered by stultifying self-consciousness. And we are Harvard men, too; can we not reason together on that basis, and in respect for the tradition we all love, instead of skulking in our tents, like academic Achilles...
...limited number of standing tickets will be available for students in the non-graduating classes. These may be had on application to the Deans of the various schools...
...course is no longer looked upon merely as an advantage but has become, practically speaking, a necessity for the young man who aims at a place in the executive forces." In the Pennsylvania system, where for every hundred college men entering the service there are a good many thousand non-college men, as Mr. Rea pointed out, the comparatively small groups of college-trained men have 86 of the 163 leading officers and directors...
...lecturer on representative government compared the present day United States to classical Greece in the age of the decay. He declared that George Washington, alive today, would receive less attention than JackDempsey; that all of us, crazed by novelty and sensation, are undervaluing the things worth while in overestimating non-essentials...