Word: 300th
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This is the first of two articles intended as an explanation of the purposes of the 300th Anniversary Fund announced yesterday by President Conant...
...general purpose of the 300th Anniversary Fund is to strengthen the intellectual and spiritual life and increase the usefulness of the University, first, by the creation of a number of new professorships to be known as "University Professorships"; and second, by the establishment of new "Harvard National Scholarships...
...underlying purpose of the 300th Anniversary Fund is to fortify the University as a whole in contrast to its separate parts of departments. A university is an institution animated by the idea that, while the division of knowledge, the distinctions among schools, the concentration upon teaching or investigation, the separation of the arts and the sciences, of the profession and the liberal studies, are convenient, they are merely provisional and in some measure artificial...
Next year the 300th birthday celebration will be in full swing, with a Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences scheduled for August 31 to September 12. At this Conference leading scholars of the world have been invited to deliver lectures and read papers in all fields of learning...
With the start of registration in Memorial Hall at 10 o'clock Harvard College will have swung into action for the 300th academic year. Today the college will be given over to the Freshmen, and over the weekend a series of meetings and receptions have been arranged to help the Freshmen become familiar with their new surroundings...