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...success of the plan depends almost entirely upon the initiative and spirit of the men who make up the House committees. The average undergraduate is usually unwilling to go outside his conventional girdle in his search for friends and it will be the job of each committee to penetrate below this reserve and stimulate an interest and a desire to meet the foreign students half way. Harvard is unusually lucky in being a center where students gather from all parts of the world and the House plan provides a splendid background for an exchange of ideas and of friendship...
...follows: "The New Outlook will check up once a month on what is taking place politically and the reason for it. on what is being done that should not be done and on what should be done that is not being done. . . . The New Outlook will join in the search for truth." What followed in type was a political speech of the kind which only Democrat Smith can make. Through every line of it could be heard the sharp twang of his voice. It was packed with his public mannerisms, salty with his unpolished rhetoric. He spoke of the "tough...
...Inquiry Club which was proposed last spring by certain members of the Liberal Club has the purpose as defined in its newly-adopted constitution, of attempting "an intelligent search for knowledge concerning political, social, and economic adjustment." The constitution further declares that "Neither advocacy nor agitation shall be considered a part of its work. Its functions shall be informative, and its goal, understanding." The Club proposed to discuss in its program for the current year the question, "What is the depression revealing as to the need for long run changes?" To this end the Club is planning the organization...
...editorial intimates that the original purpose of the Society has been abandoned "to conform to popular taste or in a search for novelty for its own sake." From the first it has been the policy of the Society to present new trends in contemporary art, not for their freakishness but as a means of informing Cambridge and Boston of modern movements. The Society does in no way depart from this policy in presenting the forthcoming show of the work of Ben Shahn...
...danger constantly threatening the vitality of the Society is that its original purpose may be forgotten either in an effort to conform to popular tastes or in a search for novelty for its own sake. The Society is the only first-hand contact offered the University layman with pioneer thought and technique in painting and sculpture and should shows be chosen for other reasons than that they are honest and capable examples of the forward line in contemporary art then the Society will lose its reason for being...