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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...parade has been planned by the Student Council as the great pictorial feature of the inauguration. An ample supply of outfits of torch, sash and red fire has been provided, and, as we explained on Monday, the price has been set at the lowest possible figure. A band will play on the march from the Yard and some of the familiar football songs will be sung. At Soldiers Field there will be a series of evolutions, an elaborate display of fire-works, with a final torchlight march around the top of the Stadium. President Lowell and his guests will occupy...
...Every student who expects to march in the procession must procure a torch, a red sash to be worn over the right shoulder, and a stick of red fire. These outfits may be obtained at the Co-operative today, until 6 o'clock, for the nominal price of $1. This price is barely sufficient to cover the expenses of the parade such as: fireworks, illuminating facilities, police protection, and incidentals. Though it is supposed that a sufficient number of outfits have been ordered, it is essential that everyone should secure his as early as possible...
...time these simple methods were outgrown. President Eliot pointed out with unanswerable force that the field of human knowledge had long been too vast for any man to compass; and that new subjects must be admitted to the scheme of instruction, which became thereby so large that no student could follow it all. Before the end of the nineteenth century this was generally recognized, and election in some form was introduced into all our colleges. But the new methods brought a divergence in the courses of study pursued by individual students an intellectual isolation, which broke down the old solidarity...
...meet Freshmen personally as he had been wont to do in former years. He likened the life of a Freshman to that of a sea captain about to leave the harbor for a foreign port. Like the captain who guides his ship by the compass, so the new student must guide his acts by his conscience...
...effort has been made to correlate all the work and thus enable any student to continue his courses from year to year toward a definite goal. All new applicants will consult a board of advisers who will determine their fitness to enter any course; in this way, they will only take the studies for which they are fully prepared and thus derive the greatest benefit. If an applicant is not prepared for any course he desires to take, every effort will be made to help him. This will be aided further by grouping the courses in the different departments which...