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...wish to go, those who do not want to borrow members' "non-transferable" tickets, and those who can not borrow tickets. We suggest a plan for helping those who can not pay ten dollars for membership, are unwilling to borrow tickets, and yet wish to hear a particular lecture. We want at the same time to levy a tax on those who do not care to "waste" ten dollars on an institution which can be of "no use" to them, who yet want to hear the lecture and are not unwilling or unable to borrow a member's ticket...
...intention of the Union to supply its instructorships from Harvard men. Thus it is that at the end of every year, when there are a number of instructorships left open by graduation, the Union is obliged to resupply. In addition to this, as a measure for growth, a particular search is made then for extra men, especially for those willing to undertake new courses. We would call the attention of every man in the University to the opportunity the Prospect Union here offers. As a social service work it is interesting and stimulating. As practical field work in education...
...foreigner selects his university with an eye to considerations which do not affect the average American student. Family tradition places no obligation upon him; clubs and athletics offer no special inducement; particular excellence of instruction is merely an added desideratum. The foreigner here, like the Rhodes scholar abroad, wishes above all to learn something about other standards, manners, and customs during the few years spent in our colleges. He is peculiarly receptive to every impulse, though, naturally, modest and awkward in asserting himself in the strange society in which he is placed. Behind this reticence he feels that he would...
There are one hundred and sixty foreigners in the University--the pick of thirty-six nations. They have come for the particular purpose of knowing us; how many of them do we know? Their very presence proves that we have a reputation for friendliness to maintain. But the average undergraduate is doing very little, if anything, to maintain it. There are organizations which we have instituted for the purpose of making our duty more easy of performance, but they have largely lost their significance. The Cosmopolitan Club cannot be effective without individual effort and labors, and moreover, is handicapped...
...Whiting's series which is to take place this coming Friday evening in New Lecture Hall. The program is to consist of sonatas and trios for the seldom heard combination of violin, waldhorn, and pianoforte from the compositions of Mozart, Tartini, Corelli, and Brahms. The sonata by Tartini in particular is one of the most celebrated works in the whole Italian school...