Word: branches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President G. Stanley Hall then read his inaugural address, in the course of which he said that, as business is absorbing more of the talent and energy of the world, so science is pervading literature, philosophy, and every branch of culture. The university should be strong where science is highly developed and should pay less attention to those departments of knowledge which have not reached the scientific stage. Our characteristic word should be concentration; we have selected a group of five departments and shall focus all our means and care to make these the best possible. The more advanced...
...opportunities for advanced courses in botany. The advantages offered in this department are for three classes of students. Those who hold first degrees from Barnard and other colleges, and desire to work for a higher degree, making a special study of botany; those who wish to study some one branch of botany, without reference to a degree; and, finally, undergraduates...
Electrical engineering is a recent branch of scientific study and a thorough preparation in it will become more and more necessary. The necessity for such training has been brought strongly to notice in our university during the past year. We hope that by the end of next year we shall have much larger and better facilities for its acquirement...
...Harvard supporters on the evening of the 27th, and there can surely be no more pleasant and inspiring a preliminary to the contest than a Glee club concert. For many reasons the importance of the intercollegiate race cannot be overestimated. Without disrespect to college athletics in general, perhaps no branch of athletics has fewer objectionable features than rowing. It calls forth at once the manliness and the physical endurance of each contestant and offers little or no incentive to sharp dealing. In this, then, the crowning event of our college athletic year, nothing that will further good feeling and loyal...
...conditions appear to be attached the cup except that it is to be held by winner of each race for one year. No single scull race was rowed last year owing to total indifference to this branch of rowing, but this year so many men have been using single sculls during the spring that the Boat Club is encouraged again to place the challenge cup open to competition...