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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...number of students has become greater, the number of teachers has become less. The school is now giving exactly twice as much instruction as it gave 25 years ago, while a faculty only twice as large teaches three times as many students...
Under the auspices of the 47 Workshop, Mr. Louis Calvert, the well-known English actor and producer, will speak in Harvard 1 this afternoon at 4 o'clock on the "Art of Acting." About a month ago Mr. Calvert gave an interesting and enlightening talk to the English 47 classes concerning theories of Shakespearean production. This afternoon he will talk more specifically about acting, and not play producing in general...
...present House and Senate, or nearly three-fourths of the members, who had a collegiate education. No fewer than 173 colleges and universities are represented. The University of Michigan, with 27 representatives, is far in the lead, holding the pennant that it wrested from Yale a few years ago. The University of Virginia comes next with 20 of its sons in Congress. Then in order are Harvard, 19; Yale, 13; Wisconsin, ten; Missouri, Alabama and Mississippi, seven each; Minnesota, Iowa and Georgia, six each...
...exhibition of the Reserve Officers Training Unit on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon was worthy of the highest commendation. The Unit was organized but two months ago, and has been drilling under arms only a little over one month, yet in practically every movement the formations were executed with the snap and precision that usually comes of longer training. The only blot on an otherwise impressive review was the small army of obnoxious street urchins who persisted in making themselves conspicuously objectionable. Captain Cordier and his officers are to be congratulated, for the splendid showing made yesterday augurs well...
...difficulty. At present three army captains, six sergeants and 22 members of the Faculty, as well as Professor Greenough and Professor Lyman, the secretary and treasurer of the Corps, are devoting their time to the training of the men. The six French officers who sailed from France several days ago to assist in the drill work are expected to report for duty before the end of the vacation...