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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Second Cutler Lecture on Preventive Medicine, by Dr. John F. Anderson, Director of Hygienic Laboratory, Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, in Amphitheatre of Building E, Medical School, Longwood Avenue, Boston. Subject: "Some Recent Advances in our Knowledge of Certain Infectious Diseases...
...Beta Kappa have often been severely criticized on the ground that there exists no just basis for determining relative rank. Because of the wide variations in the standards of marking on the part of different professors, two pieces of equally good work very often receive varying marks. In certain courses the Rank List will show that about 20 per cent of the members received grade A, whereas in others only 4 or 5 per cent are A men. How, then, are the records of men graded according of different standards to be compared in the award of distinction? Nominally...
...obtains in most other colleges: first, because it encourages that childish sense of obligation to use up all the "cuts" whether they are needed or not; and second, because we believe with the Dean that it is in accordance with conditions here at Harvard to give a man a certain amount of liberty in regard to attending classes and thus to foster a healthy sense of responsibility. But it seems quite logical that men not on the Dean's list who "cut" no more than two or three times a term should be allowed to leave...
...from Mrs. J. K. Paine to establish the John Knowles Paine Fellowship in Music; twenty-four thousand dollars from the estate of Mrs. Caroline M. Barnard on account of her residuary bequest; from the estate of Dr. Henry P. Bowditch '61, $4,000 in cash and certain books and instruments, in accordance with the terms of his will; the books and pamphlets from the library of the late Professor Charles Robert Sanger, from Mrs. Sanger, for the library of the Chemical Laboratory; and from Count Francis Lutzow, a complete set of his English writings
...bill opens with Mr. Abbott's "The Head of the Family," a drab little tragedy of life in a New England farm kitchen. The piece will recall to many certain of the Irish plays. It has a heart-breaking climax, admirably staged, but the action has not made it seem inevitable. No doubt this impression is strengthened by the acting, here the least successful of any of the evening. The characters speak words that attest to their horror, but their aspect conveys no sense of feeling whatever. Mr. Lyding was in manner and appearance admirable as the father...