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...class functions; and at the end of the year he ought to be on speaking terms with almost all the men in his class. In addition to this benefit, there are numerous other practical ends which such a book would serve. I believe there is a distinct need at Harvard for this dictionary of faces. KARL F. BRILL...
...auspices of the Christian Association is noteworthy because of the excellence of the speakers, and because of its significance in marking the termination for this year of an earnest and serious effort to spread the study of the Bible throughout the University. The opportunity of hearing President Eliot needs no further indorsement than the mere announcement. Mr. Carter is not so well known to the present College generation as to that of six or seven years ago. At that time he left the University for India, the representative of the Harvard Mission, to become one of the great Christian influences...
...Gifford Pinchot, chief of the Bureau of Forestry of the Department of Agriculture, delivered an interesting lecture in the Living Room of the Union last night on "Government Service as a Career." He emphasized the imperative need of university men in the service of the government for the work of conserving our natural resources...
...essay, "A Plea for Leisure," recognizes a real need in college life that is often lost sight of in our discussions of three-year degrees, and incentives to work. "Leisure," the author says, "means a time for quiet reading, thinking and talking." Emphatically it does not mean a time of stagnation. Neither is it time taken away from study. A boy entering college is at a very impressionable, formative period. We, the teaching force, should find means to stir him intellectually, to rouse his ambition to do, and should also give him time to think, for all the new ideas...
...educator all his life, the assumption of a new occupation, however great the distinction conferred, might not be agreeable to him. Yet it is understood that Mr. Taft persuaded President Eliot not to decline the post absolutely, but to take the matter under advisement, since there was no immediate need of a definite reply...