Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...order to increase the illumination of the Yard, the management requests that every window in those dormitories which front on the Yard shall be brilliantly lighted from 8.30 to 10.30 P. M. this evening. Every building should be ablaze with light...
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...
Even persons who do not share this view of a professional aim have often urged that in order to save college education in the conditions that confront us we must reduce its length. May we not feel that the most vital measure for saving the college is not to shorten its duration, but to ensure that it shall be worth saving? Institutions are rarely murdered; they meet their end by suicide. They are not strangled by their natural environment while vigorous: they die because they have outlived their usefulness, or fail to do the work that the world wants done...
...highest development of the individual student,--which involves the best equipment of the graduate. It would contemplate also the proper connection of the college with the professional schools; and it would adjust the relation of the students to one another. Let me take up these matters briefly in their order...
...including the Class of 1858. Some tickets have been allotted to the classes from 1859 to 1908, both inclusive, and each class allotment will be reserved, if not sold, until 1.45 P. M. The tickets remaining unsold at 1.45 P. M. will be sold to graduates in the order of their application. Officers of Instruction under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, although not graduates of Harvard, are entitled to purchase tickets...