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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prestige of Harvard to point the way to a higher standard rather than to fall back to the admittedly inferior standard of today? Is it not our privilege to assert the fallacy of a system that prepares its scholars for college four years later and far less thoroughly than do the public schools of France...
...succeeded. Its Dining Room has seldom been crowded, and its Library, which comprises some 13,000 volumes, has been unappreciated quite out of proportion to its scope. Even the college papers, which have maintained offices in the building, have gradually deserted their former haunts, preferring, no doubt, an atmosphere less heavily surcharged with the musty odor characteristic of disuse...
...Engineering students are on the same footing as students in Harvard College in respect to dormitories, clubs, athletics and social activities, except that they will have less time for such matters. For a few months the work of the school will be carried on at a disadvantage, a condition to be found in most institutions at present. Pierce Hall will again be available for the school; the laboratory equipment now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be restored or made fully available, and the teachers now on leave will return. The work will soon be on a normal basis...
...nation to honor the memory of Theodore Roosevelt. Congress will meet in joint session that day and by unanimous vote of both houses the eulogy on their behalf will be delivered by Henry Cabot Lodge. His selection for that solemn service has an appropriateness that the country was no less quick than the Congress to attest. The Governor of New York, Colonel Roosevelt's life long State, has set the example which other governors are following in rapid succession, the Governor of Rhode Island being the first of the New England governors to set the day apart, by formal proclamation...
...dealing with physical training and athletics, perhaps they are justified in adopting the resolution referred to. As a matter of fact the majority of the colleges throughout the country have long recognized the importance of physical training, in theory at least, and made attendance at the gymnasiums more or less compulsory. This would be absolutely necessary if physical training and athletics were to be put on the same footing as the work of other departments. Moreover if attendance upon gymnastics or athletics were compulsory, participation in these exercises should be required, and if required, credit should be given...