Word: thoughtful
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With the inauguration of each innovation we are more and more surprised by the fact of no one's having thought of it before. The great success of the Harvard Club of Boston is an example of this, and as the various functions of this organization are brought to our notice we cannot understand why its origin is of such recent date. A practice which has become quite common this year is that of extending to leading undergraduates invitations to speak at dinners of the Harvard Clubs throughout the East. The New Bedford Club was about the first...
Professor A. Lawrence Lowell '77 described President Eliot from the point of view of a member of the Faculty. It has been thought by many that the President ruled the Faculty with a heavy hand. This is not the case. As soon as an instructor fails to give satisfaction he must go, but as long as his work is up to the standard he may teach as he pleases. He tolerates everybody's views, though they differ widely from his own. We can measure what has been accomplished during President Eliot's administration by comparing the position of the University...
...When I was a student here in College I had very definite opinions as to how some things should be conducted, which I thought were well worth listening to, though they never were listened to. I still believe those opinions were worth something. Now I hope you will feel free to make your opinions known for I believe in the undergraduate view of things. The interest of the student body is of the greatest importance to me. And I hope you will feel perfect confidence in me for we must work together in building up the noblest institution...
...main the old prescribed system of study then prevailed. The majority of the Harvard men trained under the compulsory system, put a broad foundation under their culture, while they were able by improving opportunities which in after-life never came again to enter into wide fields of thought and knowledge, lying wholly outside of their special life-calling...
...strange to some that the student body has not taken a more interested part in the discussion relating to a successor. Some would even have the undergraduates make public their choice and give the Corporation the benefit of their decision. The CRIMSON feels that there might well be more thought and discussion given to the matter by the undergraduates. It is a topic which has a vital bearing on them, not only while they are still in the University, but more particularly after they have graduated and are viewing the affairs of Harvard from the standpoint of an alumnus...