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China's problems arise in part from the peculiarities developed by her age-long isolation, and are in part due to a retarded effort to adapt her civilization to Western ideas. Consequently the problems of China are constantly shifting. There seem to be at least four fundamental national necessities that are outstanding and abiding...
Edward Brinley Adams '92 died at his home in Cambridge on March 24 at the age of 51. Mr. Adams was a lecture on Property at the University from 1902-03. From 1909-13 he was Librarian of the Social Law Library in Boston. After leaving the position, he has been Librarian of the Law School; which position he held until his death...
...prize of $75 for the best essay on a subject dealing with the Spanish Literature of the Golden Age...
President Eliot was born in Boston on March 20, 1834. He acquired his early education at the Boston Latin School from which he entered the University at the age of 16, receiving his A. B. in 1853 and A. M. in 1857. In 1909 he received the degrees of LL. D. and honorary M. D. from the University and since the time of his graduation, five other colleges have esteemed him worthy of honorary degrees. After graduating from college he served several years in the University, first as an instructor and then as an assistant professor of mathematics and chemistry...
When Dr. Eliot became President of the University at the age of 35 he was much younger than the usual college president, and yet in spite of his youth he combined an individual educational program with a constructive program that succeeded in transforming Harvard College from a provincial New England college to the broad university that it is today. It was due almost wholly to President Eliot that the graduate schools developed, that they were brought into a relation with the college, and that the standards of entrance examinations and of college work were raised. He was a champion...