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...Jubilee will be held in May this year, the exact date to be decided after the appointment of a Jubilee Committee. As in former years the singing will form an important part of the program. The three Freshman Halls will compete for the silver loving cup which is awarded to the hall with the best chorus, each dormitory offering a program of three selections...
...comparison of methods of student government and organization. Four delegates will be the limit that any one of the 41 colleges invited will be permitted to send, as facilities for accommodating more are not at hand at Technology. The preliminary work in regard to sending out questionnaires, determining the exact fields of discussion, and arranging for the program and accommodations has been in charge of the executive committee under W. R. Barker of M. I. T., as chairman. This committee will continue in charge of the conference after the meetings begin, will have the power to limit the discussions...
...regrets that so few of the undergraduates were able to get seats. However, the club will give two or three more performances at Princeton later in the spring, probably in the evening after a big sport event such as the Harvard Princeton race or the baseball game, but the exact dates will not be fixed for some time. Harvard undergraduates may secure tickets for these performances by writing to the Princeton Triangle Club at Princeton, New Jersey...
...strenuous two-hour drills which the candidates for the University swimming team have been holding in the Boston Y. M. C. A. tank every weekday except Saturday, the men are now turning in good records in the practice trials. Although Coach Prendergast does not want to announce the exact times which the members of the squad are making in the various events, he has stated that Captain A. H. Brackett ocC., P. Johnson '21 and C. S. Worcester '22 have done better than 27 seconds in the 50-yard dash and better than 1 minute, 4 seconds...
...more advanced work of the School is carried on in seminaries and laboratories and special courses, with a large amount of individual instruction, all planned for the purpose of training students in exact and independent methods so that they may in turn carry on the traditions of sound learning and enlarge the world's knowledge of nature and of man. Its ideal, it has been said, is "to develop Harvard as one of the great centres of the world's scholarship, conserving the learning of the past and constantly widening the bounds of knowledge...