Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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The Executive Committee of the Chess Club has decided that the men in the final round of the tournament, now being played, shall be retained as a permanent squad from which to develop the team to represent Harvard in the international match. There are seven men competing in the final...
Dr. F. Howard Taylor will speak under the auspices of the Christian Association at Brooks House tonight at 6.45 on "The Chinese Problem: Its Cause and Solution."
For the last ten years Dr. Taylor has been a medical missionary in the Honan province of North China, the province in which the anti-foreign sentiment has been peculiarly bitter. For some time he worked near Pao-ting-fu, and it was here that the recent Boxer eruptions broke...
Professor Hanus gave the second of the series of Lectures on Education last night on "The Academy and the Public High School." He said in part:
The secondary schools originated as college preparatory schools. The college preparatory schools served, from the beginning, the educational needs of only a limited portion of the community, since their aims and scope of work were technical, designed to provide the necessary pre-collegiate training of clergymen. This technical character of...