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With the study cards for the second half year out, undergraduate interest is focussed on courses starting with the second semester. Among those which will be most under consideration is undoubtedly Fine Arts 1d, a half course covering all phases of European Art from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West right down to the present time...
Third, the fight against liquor in this country began more than a hundred and fifty years ago. Dr. Benjamin Rush, chief medical officers of the Continental army, witnessing the havoc wrought by liquor among the soldiers, used all his influence against it, but of course, the standards of the time was against him. Benjamin Franklin threw all the might of his influence against liquor. Washington repeatedly warned his officers to use all their influence to curb drunkenness. Shortly after the revolution several churches took up the question seriously, the Quakers and the Methodists leading the way. Other churches soon, followed...
...Among gifts made to several institutions by Chester DeWitt Pugsley, '86, vice-president of the Westchester County National Bank, of Peekskill, New York, 'was one, it became known yesterday, of $10,000 to the Harvard Law School, to be used for research in the codification of international law. Among the other recipients are Princeton University, Earlham College of Indiana, and the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. This is Pugsley's second gift to the Law School this year. On November 14, he established the John Harvey Gregory Trust, consisting of an initial grant of $400,000. Sixty...
Occupying a prominent position on the "Index" is the British philosopher's. "What I Believe." That the appearance of Mr. Russell at Symphony Hall yesterday occasioned no great turmoil among the officially righteous brings the unpredictable actions of the censors into sharper relief. The probable contents of a lecture on the faith of an unbeliever should be sufficiently apparent. But no action was taken to restrain the famous philosopher from corrupting Boston's intelligentsia...
...this work is to teach men how, to study rather than to prepare them for specific examinations. Assistance may be had in various fields, among them Government, History, Economics, Romance Languages, Fine Arts, Mathematics, and Classics...