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...President Eliot's last report to the Board of Overseers, he deals at length with two questions of great importance to the undergraduates. In regard to three-year graduation, the President believes that the regular College term should be reduced to that period. Such a change would raise the standard of labor in College, prevent the present confusion of the fourth year and "bring earlier into their professions the best trained young men." These results would undoubtedly be well worth accomplishing, but the benefit and pleasure to be derived from spending four years in Harvard College are not things...
...fund, eulogized the donor of the fund for his breadth of character and his wonderful scientific knowledge. Mr. J. H. Jennings '77, a mining engineer, spoke of the endeavor to place engineering on a level with other professions and to require a broad education of engineers. He dwelt at length upon the untiring industry, the great versatility, and the great fund of information of the late Dean Shaler, under whom the Lawrence Scientific School attained great importance. Dean Shaler was a poet and a philosopher, as well as a scientist and an engineer. It was chiefly he who influenced Gordon...
...third crew will be given one length's start over the second crew, which in turn will start two lengths ahead of the University eight...
Competitors are advised that the studies should be thorough, expressed in good English, and although not limited as to length, should not be needlessly expanded. They should be inscribed with an assumed name, the class in which they are presented, and accompanied by a sealed envelope giving the real name and address of the competitor. If the competitor is in Class B, the sealed envelope should contain the name of the institution in which he is studying. The papers should be sent before June 1, 1909, to J. Lawrence Laughlin, University of Chicago...
...order named, alternate men, commencing with I. K. Lewis, the first speaker, taking the affirmative and the others the negative of the question, "Resolved, That corporations engaged in interstate commerce be compelled to take out a federal charter." The men will deliver 10 or 12-minute speeches, the length to be decided later. Rebuttal speeches of five minutes will be required, based on topics assigned by the judges to the individual...