Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...presidents are chosen from the class football team. Those men who have succeeded in their athletics and who have won the confidence of their classmates on the football squad are likely to be men who will make good officers. The ideal president is an organizer as well as a leader. He is a man who believes in the desirability of unity in the class, but does not believe in unnecessarily forcing class unity and class spirit doctrines on that group of men, who appear in every class, for whom these ideas have no appeal...
...done much constructive work, is only one of many such problems in solving which he can lend his experience. Intercollegiate athletics remain in the balance in the minds of some men and during the next ten years it will require an energetic conservatism on the part of the leader to bring about the best results. Harvard College can be made to share in the growth of Harvard University. The new President has spoken in the past on the question of the Yard dormitories and on the feasibility of a large Freshman dormitory. The possible reorganization of Memorial Hall provides another...
Professor Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77 has been a leader in the Faculty since his appointment in 1900 to a professorship of the science of government. He has taken unusual interest in undergraduate affairs and has made several investigations into undergraduate conditions and compiled interesting statistics from the results. Professor Lowell has recently added to his international reputation as a scholar by the publication of two volumes on the Government of England. Before becoming a professor he practiced law in Boston for nearly twenty years. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School as well as of the College. Professor...
...country. Interesting statistics concerning the elective system are given, and Dr. Slosson is of the opinion that the system is on the whole advantageous. The writer believes that for earnest students who desire to complete the course in three years special classes should be provided. Harvard has been the leader in the establishment of professional schools, among the latest of which have been the Graduate School of Applied Science and the School of Business Administration. The article is well illustrated by diagrams, numerous views of the College buildings, and a photograph of President Eliot...
...England as Trustee of the Carnegie Institution at Washington, which was founded for the purpose of pensioning retired college professors. He was also one of the city's first rapid transit commissioners, being appointed to that office by Mayor Matthews in 1892. Major Higginson has long been a leader in all public movements in Boston...