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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Each college will submit preliminary sketches on February 17. In those preliminary sketches each student must rely upon his own efforts, and no reference books or consultation will be permitted. He will receive the problem decided upon by the committee, in the morning, and must hand in, by evening, his original work on the subject. The final drawings must be handed in on March 19. In the working up of the final drawing from the preliminary sketch the student may consult outside sources. The final drawings will be put on exhibition at the various colleges, in turn, after the decisions...
Professor Rudolf Eucken, exchange professor from the University of Jena, will deliver the first of a series of six lectures in English on "The Fundamental Problem of Human Life," in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston, this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The particular subject discussed will be "A Justification of Idealism...
...annual convention of the National Collegiate Athletic Association held in New York on December 27 was a marked success, almost every phase and problem of college athletics receiving attention at the three sessions. Delegates from more than 100 universities, colleges, and schools were present, nearly all the states in the Union being represented. While the association is not one which demands recognition or which enforces its point of view, it has been steadily growing in strength and prestige until in the near future it will undoubtedly be an all-important factor in moulding the practice as well as the spirit...
Several of the articles discuss athletic problems with a view to discovering the elements of strength and weakness in various sports. These are symptomatic of the efforts of the undergraduate mind to solve the problems in which it is interested. The educational value of these efforts to analyse living, moving problems is easily overlooked by those whose interest centers in philological, historical, and mathematical problems. A genuinely broad mind, however, will not pronounce too hastily upon the comparative value of different kinds of mental effort, or effort devoted to the solution of different kinds of problems. If one finds...
Where in the University Register the editors of certain Boston papers find the authority for the facts and figures published yesterday under the caption "Harvard Men Big Spenders for Luxury" is a problem that is puzzling the editors of the Register today. Neither the editorial board of the Register nor the Student Council has published any such figures in the Harvard University Register either "based upon inside information," or on the "confessions" of their friends...