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...meetings and athletic contests open to the public or to the University. Each notice will give only the hour, the name of the organization, the place, and, in cases of lectures, the subject and speaker. The present Notice Column will be continued as heretofore; but it is understood that certain notices of open meetings of general interest will be transferred to the new column...
...influence and power the clergy has had in the past, and of the way in which the prestige of the clergy has varied in different periods of the world's history. The clergy does not today have as great power and influence as it has had in certain periods of the past, but this situation has not been brought about to any great degree by the growth of scientific skepticism. In the very attempt to remove the causes of its own existence the Christian clergy has suffered in loss of prestige and power. The diffusion of the Christian spirit exists...
...Fund" of $35,000 is made in the will of the late Grace R. Shaw who died last Sunday. The fund, which is to be used to give Harvard graduates a chance to travel abroad, but which is not based on scholarship qualifications, is to be largely increased if certain other bequests fail...
...will of the late Mrs. Mary Huntington Cooke two trusts are to be established consisting of real estate holdings in Boston and of $50,000 respectively, of which three-fourths is to go to the Corporation one year after the death of certain relatives. The trusts, upon coming to the University, are to form two permanent funds in memory of Josiah Parsons Cooke '48. The first is to be invested for 10 years, when the income will be used annually for the benefit of professors and instructors in Harvard, or for their widows and minor children. The income...
...Secondly, the system of detailed marking at Harvard is not such as to encourage thinking in a broad way. It is often too much of a temptation to work for the mark alone, which of course defeats the end of true scholarship. Again, it is often said that in certain courses a man cannot know anything about the subject and get a good mark. Section men in the large courses are far too inclined to give credit to knowledge of details and to overlook a broad knowledge of the subject, such as a man would have to have in going...