Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting for foreign students will be held in the parior of the Phillips Brooks House at 7 o'clock next Monday evening. Professor G.H. Chase '96, who is the principal speaker, will discuss the selection of courses. W.C. Bennett '23, the Foreign Students Secretary of the Phillips Brooks House Association, will preside...
...voted that instead of translating some Greek or Latin author into English at the literary meetings as has been the practice hitherto, the members shall interpret and discuss in Latin one of the less difficult authors. The Fables of Phaedrus were selected for that purpose...
Dean Greenough is today representing Harvard at a conference of Deans of New England Universities at Wesleyan, Middletown, Conn. These men meet informally each year to discuss affairs of common interest in an effort to develop a more general policy with regard to college education in the East. Problems of the past year will be brought up; Dean Greenough will outline the new system of divisional exams just put into effect there, together with the Tutorial system for those concentrating in History, Government and Economics. The lowering of the College Entrance Board's examination requirement will be brought...
...College activity. In one form or another it has always been a permanent part of college life. It is a matter of tradition that the venerable Hasty Pudding Club at Harvard started with the two-fold object of enabling its members to consume mush and milk, and discuss the problems of the day. The Harvard Union formed in 1831 was a debating club not essentially different from the clubs which exist in practically all schools and colleges of today. The position of debating as an adjunct to the college curriculum was thus early recognized, but debating as a contest...
...Harvard and Yale entered into an agreement, or more properly an understanding, with Princeton, and from that time until the present the three colleges have held annual debates with one another. In 1909 these colleges arranged so that each college would present a team to discuss both the affirmative and negative of the question, the three debates taking place at the three colleges upon the same night. These triangular debates have been conducted regularly since that time, the twelfth having taken place in March of the current year...