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Among his other wise sayings Aristotle remarked that man is by nature a social animal; and it is in order to develop his powers as a social being that American colleges exist. The object of the undergraduate department is not to produce hermits, each imprisoned in the cell of his own intellectual pursuits, but men fitted to take their places in the community and live in contact with their fellow...
...transitional nature of existing conditions is seen again in the absence, among instructors as well as students, of fixed principles by which the choice of courses of study ought to be guided. It is seen more markedly still, in the lack of any accepted view of the ultimate object of a college education...
...problems that has arisen of late in the University is that of Memorial Hall. It has lost money heavily and the question of closing it has arisen. It was determined, however, to continue the dining hall. Eating together is one of the best ways to make friends. The main object of the hall is to afford an opportunity for men to eat together...
...Prospect Union will open its nineteenth year of work in Cambridge next Monday evening at 744 Massachusetts avenue. The Union is an educational and social club for men, conducted by wage-earners and by students, and teachers from Harvard University. Its object is to extend to working-men opportunities for elementary, technical, commercial, and higher education, through evening classes and lectures, and to bring into mutually helpful contact working-men, students and teachers...
...Conn., June 20, 1909.--Late last evening Coach Wray sent the University eight in its new order over the four-mile course on time. The crew covered the distance up-stream, under fair conditions, in 21 minutes, 37 seconds. No attempt at speed was made throughout the course, the object being to get the new order well together, to try Cutler out at stroke, and to see if Withington was fit for the distance. The stroke was kept at 30 except for the third half-mile, when it was raised to 31. At the finish the crew gradually increased...