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...Search in the past for a source for the motto used on the Harvard seal has been without avail. But according to a paper recently read before the Colonial Society in Boston there are two incidents which might have inspired Harvard men to adopt the phrase "Christo et Ecclesiae." The first possible influence came from a Dutch academy, the University of Franeker established in 1585. Here, during the first half century of its existence, the words "Christo et Ecclesia" were used at its dedication, in its first law of government, as its coat-of-arms, in an indictment...
...hearts of those undergraduates who are responsible for the latest University publication--"The Aristocrat." To the rest of us, such a form of pleasure may seem to be a rather expensive one; but then, we are not budding geniuses or embryo laureates who will go to any lengths in search of some means of "self-expression". The bourgeoisie can only watch and wonder...
...Harvard "indifference" to read them the recent letters in the CRIMSON, revealing that peculiar self-consciousness with which so many Harvard men face the world, listening anxiously to the "other fellow's opinion about us. But if we are to criticise Harvard fairly, it might be wiser to search for the underlying philosophy of this University, rather than to measure its fallings by standards created to suit the ideals of other colleges. It has become the fashion, in education, in literature, to attack the "genteel" tradition of New England, to compare it--unfavorably, of course,--with the breezy lack...
...from me to urge an American national program for aggrandizement in the search for oil. But let us stick to the facts! Look the problem in the face! The recognized importance of the problem of future oil supplies demands that in our consideration of it, we at least start out with a sound hypothesis. WM. W. GOODMAN 1L., March...
...hands, the wind blowing the silvery hairs of his beard through his fingers; he was looking into the distance out to sea. . . . In the musing motionless of the old man I felt something fateful, magical, something which went down into the darkness beneath him and stretched up like a search light into the blue emptiness above the earth...