Word: ago
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...accordance with an arrangement perfected two years ago between the University and the New England Conservatory of Music, the latter wishes to announce that a course in Plainsong. Accompaniment will be formed for the second half-year, beginning on Thursday, under the instruction of Mr. Wallace Goodrich. All Harvard students in the Department of Music, and others by special arrangement, who wish to take this course, should consult of once with Mr. W. C. Heilman, 1 Arsenal square, Cambridge...
...Yale Alumni Weekly, in discussing this move of the Yale management, says: "It has been felt here for some time that the best results were not being reached through professional coaching a plan which was tried three years ago in the belief that a training in the technic of the game was the thing wanted. There was an immediate improvement in the liner points of the game, but * * * there came about unconsciously a shifting of responsibility from the captain, where Yale tradition says it shall belong, to the coach, which in crucial times was disastrous...
Professor Schofield has been graciously entertained in German society, and recently dined with the Emperor and the Empress. A short time ago he received 250 guests, including members of the diplomatic and artistic circles, at a musical at which many foreign ambassadors were present. It is expected that he will arrive in Boston on February...
...most eventful in Harvard history. In that time the number of students has grown from 734 to 4012; the number of teachers has increased in even greater proportion. The character of education has also changed. There has been a great change in the class of students, for fifty years ago there was a great uniformity of pecuniary condition. Now the expenses of a part of the students have been multiplied several times...
...rough, violent, fierce sports commonly thought necessary to the development of martial qualities." The fact that over 1200 Harvard men served honorably in the Civil War, over 160 of them giving up their lives, is ample proof that the "martial spirit" was alive in the Harvard of fifty years ago...