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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...indications which we see are true, hints taken from perusals of our exchanges and from conversations with "foreign" visitors, there is a broad movement on foot among our colleges to spur men to higher scholarship. We believe that the greatest effect on the scholarship standard will be secured only when the prod is applied long before the men reach college, but we believe as firmly that a good deal can be done after they get there. If the Senior advisers, realizing as almost every Senior does that he is here to study, would seriously impress that idea upon their wards...
...annual banquet will take place at the Hotel Jefferson at 7 o'clock Saturday evening. Among the speakers at this dinner will be: President Lowell, Gen. Leonard Wood, U. S. Army, M.D. '84; Hon. David F. Houston, A.M. '92, Secretary of Agriculture; H. A. Leekley '96, President of the Harvard Club of Oklahoma; and P. D. Haughton '99. Coach Haughton will speak on the Yale game of last fall, and will show several stereopticon pictures of the contest...
Whether, however,--quoting Newman--"the time is now surely ripe for someone to take up all modern music into one vast synthesis," may be questioned. Newman, as others have done, cites Michelangelo among great men with whom Wagner deserved to rank. It may one day be recognized that the two have not only commanding genius in common, but that they hold by no means dissimilar positions in the history of their respective arts. We look upon the exaggerations and fads in the art of the age succeeding Michelangelo with the same contemptuous pity for so much wasted talent and endeavor...
...trip was undertaken to bring to graduates in the West news of Harvard's activities, and to extend to them and the colleges visited the good-will of the University. Speeches have been made in numerous clubs, in Pittsburg, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Omaha, Colorado Springs, and in Denver. Among the colleges visited are the four exchange colleges, Beloit, Colorado, Grinnell and Knox. President and Mrs. Lowell will arrive in Kansas City tomorrow morning, and will remain until Thursday night. Friday and Saturday will be spent in St. Louis, at the annual meting of the Associated Federation of Harvard Clubs, which...
...seven o'clock a parade will be formed, to proceed from the Hall to the Union, where the dinner will be held. Like all the rest of the celebrations, this will be entirely informal. So far as possible, men will be seated by rooms. Among the speakers will be President Eliot and President Lowell, and further arrangements will be made for an attractive program. The cost per plate will...