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...addition to this, it was decided to open the information bureau, which the association conducts, two weeks before the beginning of College next fall, as usual. The Cabinet decided that the social service work in the neighborhood of Harvard Square should be broadened and given more scope during the coming year, and that this could best be done through the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. and the Cambridge Social Union...
Because of the varied character of its membership, which includes teachers and administrative officers in all ranks of the profession, the Association devotes its annual meetings to the discussion of educational matters of the broadest scope. In planning this year's meeting, the Executive Committee has taken account of the almost universal necessity of conducting campaigns for college and university endowments and the new problems, both financial and administrative, brought for-ward by the greatly increased enrollments. They have secured as speakers for the morning session representatives of educational foundations which have played an important part in raising funds...
This branch of athletics is at present to be confined within the scope of the university, and is not intended for outside competition, and many candidates for seats in the rowing shells who have not yet become "regulars" will find splendid opportunities to help attain their highest ambition in rowing, that is, a seat in the varsity eight--by daily exercising in a shell...
...headquarters is, and how to get there to find out from the best authorities what he needs to know. It goes, and should go, to the roots of the classification and efficiency of knowledge as a whole. It should include a broad purview of Encyclopedia and Bibliography, the general scope of literature and learning, and above all an understanding of library resources and classification and of how to gain access to them. It should give the student, as he begins his work here and makes his choices of roads to follow, a fair notion of the whole circumference that horizons...
...organize the material available for its understanding and support, and to present it with intelligence and surety of touch for the convincing of his fellowmen. It lays out the blank form, as it were, which the student will fill out as he goes along and with increasing understanding of scope and inter-relationship delves into the vast subjects of which the course gives him only the barest of glimpses. It affords the framework and warp into which all the rest of his college and postgraduate work and intellectual acquisitions of his after life may be built in and interwoven...