Word: brief
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...closing, a brief account was given of the rebellion of the class in the spring of 1860 and of its Commencement exercises on July 19 of that year...
...brief discussion of the educational problem the speaker said that in his own College days the curriculum was a mixed system allowing a few electives for the Junior and Senior years, but in the main the old prescribed system of study then prevailed. The majority of the Harvard men trained under the compulsory system, put a broad foundation under their culture, while they were able by improving opportunities which in after-life never came again to enter into wide fields of thought and knowledge, lying wholly outside of their special life-calling...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, an office of great responsibility in directing the affairs and building up the power and influence of one of the most important and generously endowed schools of the University. To this office the authorities have appointed Professor Haskins who during a comparatively brief connection with the University has assumed a position of leadership among his colleagues. When he came to Harvard in 1902, it was considered fortunate for the University to add to its list of teachers a man of such scholarly attainment and eminence in his chosen subject of history. As chairman...
There is published on another page a brief summary of the achievements of a number of the men who have been spoken of as successors to President Eliot. No attempt has been made to compile a complete list of the candidates but the CRIMSON feels responsible for presenting to its readers the facts of interest concerning those men who have evoked the greatest amount of discussion in this connection among graduates and others interested in the selection. The conservatism which should characterize this column prevents the writer from commenting on these men here and indicating personal views and preferences...
...Latourette, Bible study secretary at Yale, University, will speak on the influences of the Bible study movement at Yale and the means of increasing its work in the University. Dean Fenn and Rev. J. G. K. McClure, president of the McCormick Theological School, will also make brief speeches. Since the first conference held on October 8, the work of enrolling men in Bible study classes has been continued, until at present there are about 350 men attending either Bible classes in the Sunday-schools or nearby churches. All men enrolled in the work or who are interested are invited...