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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This discussion will be supplemented by a talk on "The Boy Scout Movement" by Mr. D. S. Gates of the Boston Y. M. C. A. Considering the unequaled approval with which this movement is meeting both among professional workers and the boys themselves, this talk alone will justify a large attendance...
...history of the animals, and the principles of protective coloration. Shortly thereafter Dr. Smith made an extensive trip, first to Somaliland and British East Africa, then from Alaska down through Korea, China, Java, and Persia. He then returned to Zermatt, and climbed several of the highest peaks in Switzerland, among them the Matterhorn, Weisshorn, and Dent-Blanche...
This morning's communication on association football merits the consideration of all undergraduates not already engaged in the spring major sports. From modest beginnings, soccer has steadily progressed in importance among the minor athletics, and this advance has resulted in the engagement for this year of a professional coach. Its position is therefore assured, if it receives adequate support from the undergraduates...
...this type is very simple; only two precautions are necessary. First, you must never tell your story directly and fully, you must only suggest its outline and leave the rest to your reader's imagination. Kipling is largely responsible for the vogue of this method, but his followers, among them the author of "The Heritage," with the eternal tendency of all pupils, exaggerate the master's distinctive virtues into vices, and as they skim lightly over the surface of their subject, touching it only here and there, become obscure and ludicrous. Second, you must never leave a noun without...
Even the strongest advocates of the ubiquitous thesis admit that it is not an unmixed blessing. Among the many objections that are from time to time raised against it, the most valid is that the present undergraduate thesis is often merely hackwork. Such a condition is made possible by the nature of the subjects ordinarily assigned, namely those that have already been more or less fully treated in reference works. If the average undergraduate had the time and the inclination to undertake his thesis in the manner which he theoretically adopts, it would doubtless be a positive advantage...