Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...chief work of the Harvard delegation was the forming of plans for the advance of the missionary activities of Harvard. These activities are organized in the Harvard Mission, the Harvard Medical School in Shanghai, China, and the Student Volunteer Band...
...Professor L. J. Johnson, of the Engineering Department, drew up a charter on the commission form of city government, modeled after the newer charters of the western cities. This document was submitted to the voters on a referendum and it was defeated, the chief objection being that it did not take sufficiently into consideration the peculiar needs of Cambridge. Professor Johnson has revised this charter and it will probably be again submitted to the Legislature and to the voters at the next elections...
...January 1. The first meeting on the evening of December 31 will take place in the Union. There will be a dinner and addresses by Professor I. L. Winter, the present president of the organization, and President Eliot, followed by a general discussion of the subject "Oral English." The chief papers will be read by Professor E. Chariton Black, of Boston University, and Mr. F. W. G. Hersey, of the Department of English...
...over them, then, that they result only in stupidity, dullness, vanity, and vexation of spirit?" Can a vivid and interesting book be at the same time stupid and dull? Yet the article shows the author an acute observer of literary matters, with a pronounced taste of his own. His chief fault is an excessive eagerness to appear grown up and sophisticated. He is grown-up enough to afford to be simple, if he would only believe it. Let him reserve mere cleverness for such amusing sportiveness as he exhibits in "Marionettes...
...Union will give a reception to the members of the victorious football team in the Living Room this evening at 8 o'clock. R. C. Evarts 1L. will act as chairman and the chief speakers will be Captain Storer and Coach Haughton. The latter will give a talk on the fine points of football, which will be illustrated by lantern slides showing some of the plays in the big games of the past season. The team will sit on the platform as the guests of honor, and the affair will be enlivened by singing and cheering. A. F. Pickernell...