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With a committee of fifteen prominent graduates representing all sections of the country the task of collecting this large fund ought not to be difficult. The plan of reaching every Harvard graduate of the last forty years will in itself lend great strength to the universal character of the appeal...
Anyone who is familiar with the task of editing a college year book knows only too well the paramount difficulty of getting men to have their pictures taken and to send in the illustrious histories of their lives. This year's photograph committee intend to have the Senior Album published by May first, and if they fail it will be on account of the carelessness of the members of 1917. Twenty minutes is long enough for any man to rid himself of all obligations, and immediate responses to the letters sent out last week will be a great help...
...indifferent to the odd moment. We are blind to its possibilities careless of the opportunities it offers. We squander them in prodigal wastefulness. If we do not have an hour or more available for a certain task, we let the precious moments slip by. We postpone until a more convenient time tasks which might be started and possibly finished. We plan our lives on a slip-shod basis. And then we wonder why our college careers are barren of achievement...
...very much regret the departure of Captain Bjornstad. He is one of the ablest of the younger officers of our Army. His work during the past 12 years has been of the highest order. He has eminently performed every task assigned him, particularly in modernizing and perfecting our drill regulations, successfully carrying out the field tests of the Provisional Regiment in 1912, as a distinguished member of the General Staff Corps, as military attaché to Berlin, and later as instructor at our Service Schools including the staff college. While his separation from Harvard at this time is a distinct...
...Hyslop began with a recital of several of his own personal experiences which finally led him to devote himself to the task of determining whether there is something more in the worold than matter and its functions. In this connection he made reference to Professor Royce, as the best type of psychical research worker, in that he sought unceasingly for facts without hindering the search by untimely attempts to explain the facts obtained...