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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Conn., June 14, 1916.--The absence of H. S. Middendorf '16 is still greatly noticed in the first crew, but today almost all signs of the check had disappeared. The second crew likewise is making rapid improvements in keeping a decent form at a low stroke. In addition to Middendorf's illness, another bit of hard luck hit the University camp today when C. W. Greenough '19 was forced to go home for the rest of the season with tonsilitis. J. F. Linder '19, who also left a few days ago because of sickness, is not expected back, and these...
...present and rather comprehensive number of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine should prove successful in serving a large alumni, because it has an article for almost every man. Ample space is given for the discussion of topics which represent almost every graduate interest...
...article containing the most interest from an undergraduate point of view is "Reminiscences of '66," by Mr. George Batchelor '66. It gives an idea of the Harvard which President Eliot found when he came into office. His predecessor is almost unknown, even by name, to the average undergraduate, so that it is a pleasure to read of the days of President Hill. Mr. Batchelor speaks with some familiarity of Longfellow and Lowell, and also manages to give an account of the struggles out of which the present Harvard club system developed...
...actively at work in the business world. But the demand for trained teachers of business subjects is growing and it ought to be one of the functions of the School to meet this demand. Being itself on a graduate basis and maintaining a standard of work which is almost unique among institutions of its type, it has a special obligation in that regard. As for the Ph. D. degree, that of itself would matter little. But nearly all the institutions of higher education in this country seem to regard the holding of that degree as one of the passports...
That in a time of almost unprecedented danger in our foreign relations, a successful mechanic whose triumph in the production of inexpensive automobiles has brought his name before the public, a man who is reported to have remarked that history is a meaningless tradition and that three bankers caused the European war-and yet these are the days of compulsory elementary education and public libraries-a man who sailed for Europe with a following of cranks and unbalanced school teachers to bring about an international settlement whose importance and difficulty will surpass the problems that faced the Congress of Vienna...