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...recent meeting summoned by the Committee on Organization of the Student Council over 2b representatives of an many territorial clubs incl. and or ranized the Harvard federation of Territorial Clubs. The scope and functions of the Federation were discussed and the general plan enthusiastically received. The Federation will supply the need for co-operation among the territorial clubs and with the Associated Harvard Clubs, and will be a nucleus for the formation of new clubs. Information valuable in such undertakings as the new Freshman dormitory plans, will be furnished by the Federation...
...Date-Book is a public calendar of coming events. Its scope is very broad. It not only aims to present a complete calendar of events, but also,--and perhaps even more important,--it undertakes to arrange dates in advance in such a way as to avoid conflicts. For example, the dates for the Symphony Concerts in Sanders, the Whiting Recitals, the Noble Lectures, etc., were arranged by means of the Date-Book; and events of University interest, from meetings of Registered ("interest") Clubs, to dramatic productions of the various organizations, come within its scope...
Professor Rafael Altamira of the University of Oviedo, Spain, delivered a lecture on "Literature as the Fountain of Spanish History" in Emerson D last night. Professor Altamira's subject does not indicate the scope of his address. He endeavored to show the general value of literature to the historian and took Spanish history as an example. There is little positively known of some of the greatest events in Spanish history; they are obscured in myth and legend. But that is not all. Having lost their orientalism, the Spanish people ask how they came to be what they are. Is there...
...Thayer's "Essay on Man" is a courageous attempt to do a difficult and dangerous thing. For the scope of the paper is almost as wide as the title suggests, and it is hard to write something new about "Man" in two columns and a half. When an essayist begins by saying, "There are men who say the commonplace in a commonplace manner," he sets a great temptation before the reviewer--a temptation which the present reviewer with difficulty resists. When Mr. Thayer next classifies men according to their ways of expressing themselves, he ought to find a place...
...recognition of the force of his teaching power and the depth of his scholarship, Princeton University conferred yesterday on Professor George Herbert Palmer the honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities. In presenting the degree to Professor Palmer, Dean West paid a glowing tribute to the scope of his accomplishments and the permanent influence of his work. Professor Palmer, he said, combines the qualities of a great teacher and a powerful thinker; is a literary artist of high distinction and "a philosopher of original sense with a tranquil enthusiasm for truth." Such a tribute to our esteemed professor arouses a sense...