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Owing to the death of Dean Shaler the courses known as Geology 14 and 28 of the Department of Geology and Geography will be discontinued. The lectures in Geology 4 will be given next year by Professors Davis, Wolff, Wood worth, and Jaggar. Assistant Professor Woodworth will have general charge of the course...
...covers of the Anniversary Number reproduce those of the first edition. On the editorial page is a tribute to Professor Shaler. Its reminiscent tone brings to the reader's mind a host of personal memories that carry him far beyond the printed page. "The Source" is a sonnet by Frank Dempster Sherman '87 on the east and the morning, which he handles with delicacy and sureness, and with entire success. "On the Return of a Graduate", by Richard Washburn Child '03 is a most gratifyingly deft and complete exposition of a rather intangible subject. It is bright and readable throughout...
...contents of the May issue of the Monthly, which appears today, are as follows: "Valor", poem recited at the annual Phi Beta Kappa banquet in 1902, by the late N. S. Shaler '62; "The Demise of Cap'n Ben", by C. H. Brown '05; "The Meeting", by R. E. Rogers '09; "An Empty Glass", by E. B. Sheldon '08; "The Question", by H. A. Bellows '06; "Ruth's Sister", by S. D. Malcolm '06; "Sea-Spell", by J. H. Wheelock '08; "The Monk", by W. L. Stoddard '07; "Saga of Lief Erickson", by C. T. Ryder '06; "The Color...
...annual Junior class dinner, which was postponed on account of the death of Dean Shaler, will be held on Tuesday evening, May 1, at 6.30 o'clock at the American House, Boston. All tickets for the first date will be good for this dinner...
During the last forty years Professor Shaler has lectured on geology to about 7000 students at Harvard, a greater number, I believe, than have attended the lectures of any other man on that subject; but this does not mean so much that the legion of young men were deeply interested in the science of the earth as that they were attracted by the man who told them about it. His extraordinary individuality was felt there as it was everywhere else. Most professors are known chiefly through the subject that they study and teach: strip them of that and, like kings...