Word: though
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...therefore, a compliment of no mean nature to be asked to lend support to fellow students in a far country, even though under the circumstances, that support must needs be moral rather than physical...
...colleges? It should be Harvard's aim to act as leader in a new movement to make intellectual achievement more attractive. The division of various courses into sections, in order that the more able students may have more opportunity for development, would be a valuable, though it is by no means a complete solution of the question. Students, as individuals, should be given more attention; competition in scholarship should be stimulated. The section men and assistants, who do not arouse enthusiasm should be supplanted, if possible, by more able men. The University should aim, at whatever cost, to obtain...
...main need of the University is for financial backing. A Corporation composed of men of sound business judgment can do more good than a Corporation composed of intellectuals, who though admirable judges of scholars, cannot offer them a sufficient salary to induce them to devote their energies to Harvard...
...highly unfortunate, but nevertheless true, that any new idea evolved in connection with the University, however unofficial, bears the Harvard stamp. Once, when a man who had registered as a Freshman and left within three days was killed in an unfortunate accident, though this occurred ten years later, the newspapers referred to the incident as that of "Another Harvard Man Gone Wrong...
Tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock--at the regular meeting of Government 1a--in the New Lecture Hall, President Lowell will explain the regulations relating to the choice of elective studies. All Freshmen, even though they do not take Government 1a are invited to attend...