Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...History Club. Meeting in Conant Common Room. Lecture by Professor R. F. Scholz, on "The Antecedents of the Holy Roman Empire...
...Harvard Mathematical Club. Meeting in Conant Common Room. Lecture on "Magic Squares," by Mr. Charles E. Wilder...
...Modern Language Conference. Meeting in Conant Common Room. "Rabelais and Hans Breitman," by Professor C. H. C. Wright. "Some French Folk-Tales Among the North American Indians," by Mr. Stith Thompson...
...Perhaps from the very fact of its comparative antiquity and a certain dignity and aristocracy that naturally comes there from, and from Harvard's recognized primacy among educational institutions has come the rather general belief that Harvard is exclusive expensive attainable only to rich men and indulgent of vices common to the gilded youth. In truth, however Harvard with its non-sectarianism. Its enormous cosmopolitan attendance its prohibition of secret societies with their caste and clannishness, its diversified course of study in the college proper and the many special schools that make-up the University is the most democratic...
...hundred or more, will be accommodated in the three buildings now under construction, Smith, Standish, and Gore. Smith Halls, comprising Persis Smith Hall, George Smith Hall, and William Smith Hall, will house approximately 200 students; Gore, 165; and Standish, 135. Each hall will have a dining room and a Common Room large enough for all the occupants. The large fireplaces and the impressive wainscoting of these rooms will make them very different from any quarters familiar to previous generations of Harvard Freshmen. In a word, these buildings will constitute the unquestioned centre of the life and activities of the entering...