Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University on Memorial Day contained the names only of those sons of Harvard whose deaths befell them in the service of the Allies and the United States in the war against Germany. An impression to the contrary was due to the fact that a newspaper, in an advance account of the Memorial Day ceremonies, reprinted from the Bulletin an earlier, unofficial list of all the Harvard men, including Germans, who have fallen in the war, without informing itself about the names actually appearing on the panel accepted by the University...
...person who, on account of sickness, will be unable to present himself for registration may apply on or before the day of registration at the office of any local board for instructions as to how he may register by agent...
...American academic life far broader than any the university had in mind in passing its present resolve. As the order stands it is only designed to exclude from the university's college of arts and sciences all aliens of military age who claim exemption from military service on account of their alien status, and who have not applied for naturalization. As such, the faculty's action is purely a war measure, and even so is a matter of merit...
...excellence of the present number of the Advocate chiefly consists. Dialect presents many difficulties even for the trained hand, and in this regard Mr. Strout and Mr. Henderson have acquitted themselves remarkably well. Of the two stories the former is the more ambitious, and is, perhaps, partly on that account, the more uneven. The semi-detached prelude, in which for a moment the author intrudes in his personal capacity, quite unnecessarily, is not altogether in tune with the rest of the story. Despite, however, its occasional lapses into the immature and inept, the story as a whole is vividly...
...recent meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences it was decided that, on account of the closing of the University's Summer Engineering Camp on Squam Lake this year, men might be allowed to count equivalent work at other summer camps toward attaining the degrees of A.B. or S.B. The wording of the vote was: "That the Administrative Board be authorized, during the suspension of the Harvard Engineering Camp, to accept, if they see fit, to count towards the requirements for the degree of A.B. or S.B., equivalent summer work in other summer schools of engineering...