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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...published, seven are now in press, and forty more in preparation. No book can be accepted for publication which does not receive the endorsement of the Syndics of the Press. Besides the above books, which are written by members of the Faculty, or by professors in other colleges for certain series such as the Harvard Historical Series, the press publishes six periodicals, and the Official Register of Harvard University. The press is most useful in enabling professors and other members of the University to have their works printed near at hand...
...course, we realize that a subject must have certain definite qualifications to be suitable for discussion in the Forum. But the indefinite postponement of the meeting of the Forum because there was no topic for discussion is a striking commentary on the unruffled felicity of our undergraduate life. No problems confront us, no subjects need thrashing out. Requiescat in pace...
Concerning the question of Phi Beta Kappa and scholarship there is of course no unexceptionable doctrine. Certain members of Phi Beta Kappa have had their conception of life narrowed to books: certain non-members have attained a very full measure of success after graduation. But in the long run the concentration derived from attention to studies has proved the greatest benefit of a college course. To turn the attention of the undergraduate mind more surely to this fact, a number of changes would help. There are two which seem immediately feasible...
...long runs, the best indication of scholarship. Consequently the general opinion is often that the Society is short-sighted in its choice of men, and it loses prestige. Make it purely honorary for the thirty of forty high stand men of the class, and what ever popular opinion of certain of the men elected may be, it will be recognized that they are elected because they have won out in a set competition. When this absolute standard is deviated from, make it plain that such deviation has occurred only because a man has won his marks dishonestly. There...
...Raymond, Assistant Professor of Palaeontology, accompanied by Professor Twenhofel of Kansas University, will go to Western Russia and southern Scandinava to study certain of the older sedimentary rock strata in comparison with strata of the same age in this country. Since similar types of animals are found fossilized in European and American rocks, it is possible that Professor Raymond's comparison of the strata will prove that these animals came from Russia and Scandinavia to North America...