Word: objective
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...Graduate Hand-book for 1900, which has just been published, is devoted for the most part to the proceedings of the fifth annual convention of the Federation of Graduate Clubs. The object of the publication has changed within the last two years. "The primary purpose of the hand-book is no longer merely to present in a compact form certain information sought by advanced students...By the present plan, the Federation hopes to bring all graduate students more in touch with its work, and, perhaps, to contribute something towards the solution of the problems of higher standards of scholarship...
...scientific expedition is being formed at Yale to go West this summer. About twelve Yale instructors and students will take part in the expedition, which will leave late in August. The party will make the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona the main object of the trip, but will also visit the San Francisco mountains and the petrified forests of Arizona. Another Yale party is already on its way to the Canyon. The object of the expedition is mainly to study the geology of the Arizona regions and also to hunt for fossil remains...
...Department of Geology and Geography, Dr. Daly will give a new half course, Geology 112, on the subject of Oceanography. The object of the lectures will be to give a comprehensive view of what is known regarding the larger problems of the ocean. Geology 172 will again be offered, and will cover a somewhat broader field. The lectures on experimental and dynamic geology will be illustrated by experiments. Other courses which were omitted this year but will be offered during 1900-01, are Geology 271 and 11. Geology 72 and 21 are bracketed. In Half-course A1, Dr. Daly will...
...series of courses in natural history will be given by Harvard men during July at Bayville, Lineken Bay, Maine. The object of the work will be to teach the elements of natural history by observation in the field and laboratory under trained observers, and to furnish opportunity for more extended work...
Tomorrow morning at 10.30 o'clock, there will be a conference of socialist students from New England colleges at 45 Elliot street, Boston. The object of the meeting is to consider plans for the formation of an intercollegiate socialistic league and to take steps towards securing representation in the international organization which will be formed this summer in Paris. Students who wish to join the league should send their names at once to the Secretary of the American Commission, Thayer...