Word: currents
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Social service work for the current year under the auspices of Phillips Brooks House will be outlined at a meeting in Brooks House this evening at 8 o'clock. In addition, the chief purpose of the gathering will be to show to all interested the results and benefits to be gained from social service work. For this purpose, Professor Cabot, of the Medical School, and R. W. Kelso, of the Massachusetts State Board of Charities, both of whom are experienced in such work in Boston and neighboring towns, will make clear the urgent need of more interest in this field...
...rest the number is varied, if uneven. The new department, "Here and There," a collection of aphoristic cleverisms on current topics, is an interesting departure, from which much pleasure will come when more hands than one join is its production. The book reviews are below the Monthly's average. They do not touch books worth review, and they are inconclusive as well as over-lengthy. One editorial sets squarely before the University the blight which the Freshman dormitories threaten--a College of mob-driven athletics and "class spirit." The other, under the rather surprising through flattering title, "Shall Harvard Menace...
Course 1 will consist of voice training and drill in delivery. This section will be carried on under Mr. Chenoweth. Course 2, of which Professor Winter has charge, will be on extemporaneous speaking. Topics of current interest will be taken up for the purpose of impromptu discussions. This will be mainly for second and third year men, and the hours will begin October...
...High Tension Laboratory, it is expected that the building will be completed in the fall. The walls will be of brick, and accordingly the finished building will resemble Pierce Hall externally. It is planned to install in the completed structures powerful dynamos and batteries for generating the current to be used in experimentation...
...announcement of Academic Distinctions for the current year and the annual Literary Exercises of Phi Beta Kappa Society will take place in Sanders Theatre on Monday, June 15, at 11.45 o'clock. The floor and first balcony are reserved for ticket-holders until a few minutes before the program begins. The general public is cordially invited to attend, and particularly members of the undergraduate body, whose presence at the exercises is greatly desired...