Word: brief
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual meeting for the award of academic distinctions won during the year 1906-07 will be held in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. Dean Hurlbut will preside and will make a brief statement of the purposes of the meeting. The principal address will be delivered by Owen Wister '82, author of "The Virginian" and other well-Known books, on "Our Country and the Scholar...
...weekly meeting of the St. Paul's Society this evening will take the form of a Christmas service. Rev. William H. Faulkner, rector of St. Paul's Church, Boston, will give a brief address. The meeting will close with a short business session, and the reading and discussion of reports. Mr. Faulkner was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1883, and from the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Cambridge, in 1894. After occupying posts in Baltimore and Philadelphia, he came to Boston, and has been rector of St. Paul's Church since...
...annual meeting for the award of academic distinctions for the year 1906-07 will be held in Sanders Theatre at 8 o'clock next Wednesday evening. Dean Hurlbut will be the presiding officer and will make a brief statement of the purposes of the meeting. The principal address will be delivered by Owen Wister '82, author of "The Virginian" and other well-known books, on "Our Country and the Scholar...
President Eliot, in his brief address, described the hearing before the Massachusetts Legislative Committee on Education, in 1894, when Radcliffe College received the charter under which it is now conducted. The committee, and a large body of citizens who had gathered for the public hearing on the question, were hostile to the plan proposed in the petition. Either of two plans would have been acceptable to the committee; that Radcliffe should be an institution entirely separate from Harvard University, or that Harvard should become a co-educational university, admitting women on the same basis as men. The plan advocated...
...vacation, is not to be given. Residents of Buffalo, Cleveland, and Chicago, who have heretofore left Cambridge one day early, and men from points farther west who have always been allowed two days of grace, must arrive home anywhere from 12 to 24 hours late for their all too brief rest from College duties...