Word: general
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...Bible devotionally and in the light of modern criticism and are not limited to members of any religious society. Men intending to enter the courses should enrol at once. Further information in regard to them as well as cards of enrolment may be obtained at the office of the general secretary of the Christian Association (office hours, 11-12, a.m. and 7-8 p. m.) Brooks House, second floor East, or at the Brooks House at the regular hours of meeting of the courses...
...create a new society, which is to be composed of men resident at the University who have taken part in intercollegiate debates, including alternates, and the presidents of the four class clubs. The object of the new organization will be almost entirely executive. It purposes to look after the general interests of debating at Harvard, arrange and conduct the intercollegiate debates, and direct the work of the class clubs and interclass debating. The constitution of the society will go into effect after a majority of members in three out of the four class clubs have ratified...
...place whatever books are needed by students as freely as possible at their service, and, to secure to each man equal rights in their use. Some seven or eight thousand volumes accordingly, designated by the professors as the most important for the work of their courses, are "reserved" from general circulation on the open shelves in the Reading Room where every one can handle them freely, and use them at pleasure. The only conditions necessary to secure satisfactory results are that the books shall not leave the Library and that they shall be used in a spirit of fairness...
Occasionally a man forgets or disregards these conditions, and either secures possession of a volume he wants by underhand means, or takes it away from the Library secretly. Such a man sets himself directly against the general interest and has to be dealt with accordingly. He is deprived of the use of the Library, not because he has broken a certain rule, but because he fails to conform to the liberal principles on which the Library is administered, and shows himself unfit to be trusted in a Library that relies on the loyal support and willing co-operation of those...
...agreement made between the city of Cambridge and Harvard University, a number of properly qualified students, not exceeding ten in any one year, from the course in education, shall be admitted to the public schools of Cambridge, to teach for practice under the general direction of the superintendent of schools of Cambridge, Professor Hanus, and special direction of the principals and teachers in the schools to which the students may be assigned...