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Stepping out of a small college comes to Harvard, unknown and unheralded and, it would seem, ignored, the Unclassified Student. Not backed by fellow Freshmen, or supported by friends in the upper classes, he is indeed lost in the whirl of college activities. To find and understand his fellow scholars is almost impossible. The University for him becomes a great industrial plant, each man selfishly pursuing his own affairs, wrapped up in his own friends, enveloped in "Harvard indifference." Surely something can be done to make the path of the Unclassified Student easier...
...Freshmen we have Senior advisors--men who understand the feelings and attitude of their younger fellows. Can not Senior advisors be assigned to unclassified students? They of all students are alone. They of all students should find the true Harvard. We ought not to neglect this class of undergraduates, but help them. We ought not only to assign Senior advisors but to give them credit when they have earned credit, honors when they have earned honors, and to make them feel that they are real members of the University...
...Flume not only from all the Saturnian states, but also from all parts of the western hemisphere. For example, "II Progresso Italo-Americano" through popular subscriptions has raised about $1,000,000 lire "Pro D'Annunzio e Flume." The Italians of South America have done ever better, and please understand that the contributions have by no means ended...
Referring to poetry in general, Mr. Roberts said, "It is a sad fact, but there are usually no more than two men in a thousand capable of understanding poetry. There are many hypocrites, to be sure, who pretend to understand verse and who join an exclusive Browning cult, but this is done in order to conform to custom. The poet is born, not made. He has within him the 'urge of the eager' which needs no routine training. In college the poet is usually shy, for an individual is repressed, but the type advanced. You have a very good school...
President Wilson's telegram declaring it imperative that the Democratic party stand as the uncompromising supporter of the Versailles Treaty without reservations, shows that he fails to understand the present attitude of the American people. Nine months ago a referendum would undoubtedly have showed a majority in favor of passing the Treaty intact. But the Republicans chose to use their majority in the Senate to play partisan politics with the document of Versailles until it has become an issue between a treaty with some reservations or no treaty. And the majority of Americans support the former choice...