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...professions the necessity of a university education is obvious, and accordingly the law and medical schools of the country offer a practical training to fit the student for his future work. In like manner our engineers and architects receive direct technical and practical knowledge from college courses which apply directly to the profession which the student is later to follow. But what does Harvard offer of a directly practical nature to the man who will spend the greater part of his life in purely mercantile business...
...time. The speakers are representative men--few of them far removed from personal experience with undergraduate life--and well adapted to their audience. The majority will probably not require to be urged to be present; but it may do no harm to suggest to those few who consider receptions fit only for the unsophisticated, that such an opinion is a sign of ignorance, rather than of superior intelligence...
...brother, E. C. Bacon '10, stroke and captain of the Freshman crew, will be the most likely candidates for the place. Number four will not be so difficult a place to fill, when R. L. Bacon '07 leaves College. Either of the men mentioned above would fit into the boat fairly well there, or C. Morgan '08, or J. E. Wald '10, number six on the present Freshman crew. The boat will also become va crew. The bow seat will also become vacant when R. M. Tappan '07, graduates. P. Wyman '10, C. Wiggins '08, and S. Marvin...
...President Eliot at the meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs Saturday, is in line with the modern conception of the relation of a college training to practical life. Although a college education is generally admitted to be a valuable asset in all walks of life, it does not generally fit a man to enter at once into business. The college graduate who enters upon a business career at the foot finds himself passed at the beginning by men whose common school education has been supplemented by several years of practical experience. As the college man gains this experience, however...
Coach Lathrop, the third speaker, mentioned the advantage that the Freshman track team had by being on its own grounds, and said that he thought they had more than an even chance to win. Two good men were entered in each event, and everyone was in fit condition to do his best. H. Watson '10, captain of the track team, in summarizing the work of the Freshman track team, emphasized the value of a large squad in developing good track athletes...