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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There seems to be a belief among most Americans that with the completion of the war our task, too, ended. The aid which we must render in the future should be of as great and lasting value as any we have rendered in the past. We must build up the civilization that has been torn down. Now that active assistance through the League has been blocked by failure of the Treaty, individual effort must be applied to the task of building up the stricken fields of enterprise. Individual capital, private organizations for reconstruction, must take up the task...
After careful analyses of the Cambridge water supply for the past two weeks, Dr. Roger I. Lee '12, M.D. '05, of the Department of Hygiene, yesterday issued a statement to the effect that there was no further necessity for boiling it before drinking...
...annual dinner of the New England Association of the Alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy will be held this evening at the Hotel Somerset, Boston. The business meeting and informal reception will be held at 6 o'clock, and dinner will be served at half-past six. Principal Perry and other members of the Faculty, representatives of the Board of Trustees, and other distinguished guests will be present to speak about school affairs and other subjects of interest to alumni. Dinner tickets at three dollars each, two dollars for those who have left the Academy since...
...many years. The scheme has been applied in a modified form at the University of Pittsburgh also. This plan has been modified still further to meet the different conditions and needs at Harvard. It is significant that other universities are now moving in the same direction, and within the past few days a large movement has been inaugurated to put such a plan ultimately into effect in most of the large technical schools...
...value of general education should be the university editors' sane protest against those who would deny to Harvard teachers that freedom to form and express their own opinions which has been one of the more cherished rights of English and American tradition. Advancement of society in the past has been wrought by its critics not by its admirers. It is essential, particularly in this time of readjustment, that our universities shall fully recognize this fact. Some compromise between warring classes and ideas can only be reached by the fullest discussion of their rival claims...