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...first University Tea of the year will be held in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House on Friday afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock. The object of these entertainments is to provide an opportunity for students to meet one another informally, and to bring them into closer relations with the officers of the University and their families, especially with those whom they do not meet in their courses...
...opening meeting of the Upperclass Debating Club last night, at which about sixty men were present, was a great success. The object and plans of the club were discussed and there were speeches by the following men: Professor I. L. Winter '86, T. M. Gregory '10, G. L. Harding '10, and F. W. Sullivan...
...life is thus narrowed by early specialization lose some of the broadening influence which it is the function of the college to impart. Carried to its extreme this demand by scientific schools for students who are at entrance already well grounded in their special subjects might defeat altogether the object of college training...
Colonel H. L. Scott, superintendent of the United States Military Academy, lectured in the Union last night on "West Point." He began by saying that Harvard prepares its graduates for all the arts of peace, West Point for the arts of war; but the prime object of both is to make cultivated...
...been assailed by many discordant voices, all of them earnest, most of them well-informed, and speaking in every case with a tone of confidence in the possession of the true solution. One theory, often broached under different forms, and more or less logically held, is that the main object of the college should be to prepare for the study of a definite profession, or the practice of a distinct occupation; and that the subjects pursued should, for the most part, be such as will furnish the knowledge immediately useful for that end. But if so, would...