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Centralization of power in the government is necessary at times, but should never be continued for a moment after its necessity ceases. We want to get back into our normal form of government and get out of our immense national expenditures. We are now thinking of government expenses in terms of billions instead of millions; we should think in terms of millions rather than billions. We want to get rid of our army of unemployed; get back to an economical system of administration. We should build up a budget system, to be prepared by or under the direction...
With all the usual sources of revenue stopped, it was difficult enough to continue athletics, but with the enthusiasm for sport revived, before the means of financing it had again become normal, as was the case last spring, the problem was increased. To have allowed athletics to be dropped at the College would have been the easy course, but would have demoralized the future of the athletic system here, and made a gap in the life of those who were at College. Realizing this, the Athletic Committee worked unceasingly that sport might keep a foot-hold here...
What does four years here on our own college campus do to a man or woman? If they are normal they are vastly different from the individuals who first enrolled at the University as verdant yearlings. A subtle change is effected in their personalities, intellects, and moral outlook upon life. There is a sameness about most of the students who graduate from this University or any other university. For four years they have been trained to think alike, dress, and act alike. The individual who has steeled himself against convention is unusual and difficult to find. The student who dares...
...early part of the year athletics gave way to military training; nor were they at any time in the year on a normal basis though intercollegiate contests were resumed after the Students' Army Training Corps had disbanded. So many athletes were in military or naval service through all or part of the year that athletic organizations, like all other organizations, felt the instability of the times. Yet since our rivals must have felt the same instability there was no satisfactory reason for Harvard's poor record in intercollegiate athletics...
...also been definitely decided than the school will be a genuine graduate school, requiring a bachelor's degree for admission, and offering the degrees of Master and Doctor. It will give processional training to school and college teachers, school superintendents, and normal school teachers. It will conduct researches in education and will have its own library, laboratory, and model school, and a clinic for the study of children, their growth and work...