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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Illustrated has resumed publication for the college year 1918-19. Attractive in its appearance, with a cover design of British and French war posters, the current number forebodes well for the coming issues...
...Discussion Groups are designed to stimulate and direct the habit of accurate thinking in the student in regard to the pros and cons of current problems. Members of the groups are guided in the discussions by volunteers from the Faculty, who are well qualified to present the problems in their true forms, stripped of interested prejudice and popular fallacies. The large variety of national and international questions available for consideration assures an abundance of excellent subject matter. Not only will members of the groups increase their understanding of affairs of current discussion in the press, but they will derive benefit...
...been practically decided by the University that for the balance of the current college year there will be no active military or naval training for Harvard undergraduates, according to a statement made yesterday by President Lowell. In view of the facts that the great majority of men returning to Cambridge from the service would not receive additional benefit from such training, that the systems of training recently enforced do not appear the best which can be devised, and that the development of a practical and permanent system of military instruction for coming classes is of primary import, the university authorities...
...original plan of having three terms this year will be followed out, but already it has been decided next year to return to the plan of two semesters to a year. The current term ends Saturday, December 21, and the marks of all students for the first third of the year will be reported to the Office not later than three days after the final meeting of the course. In every case, an hour examination will be given on this final meeting, which will count as the usual percentage of the student's mark for the term...
...been appointed professor of Military Science and Tactics; Rear Admiral J. A. Rodgers, of the Naval Unit, has been appointed professor of Naval Science and Tactics; M. O. Hudson, of the University of Missouri, has been obtained as a lecturer in law for the current year; W. C. Sabine, who has been acting director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory during the absence of Major Theodore Lyman, has resigned, and Professor E. H. Hall has been appointed to fill the vacancy; Professor Arthur Pope is to serve as acting director of the Fogg Art Museum, until E. W. Forbes, the director...