Word: currents
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...current year, a prize will be offered in each one of the groups numbered I, II, III. I. Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering. II. Biology, Geology, and Anthropology. III. Ancient Languages and Literature. Not more than one prize is offered for essays belonging to a single group...
...present board of editors of the Advocate continues to show uncommon enterprise and no small amount of journalistic instinct. The current issue may not represent a type which we should like to see become permanent, but is what the ready-made clothing advertisements mean by "different", when they write the word in quotation marks. It has two articles which especially show that the editors are wide-awake. One is an allegory on Harvard College by Benjamin Franklin, which is as far from flattering as it is near the truth as to the conditions of our own day. The other...
...question naturally arises -- how does this environment further this early and rapid development. As Dean Yeomans points out in the current issue of the Graduates' Magazine, the "precious mediocrity" of the class will find more and higher inspiration for work and better opportunities to perform it. It is a fact that under prevalent conditions a major portion of undergraduate mediocrity is found among isolated groups of students who live apart from their active and energetic classmates and who never come in contact with the leaders of the classes. The consequence is they are satisfied to loaf and do only enough...
...current issue of Collier's Weekly, Walter Camp of Yale announces his selection of the All-American football teams of 1912. Three Harvard men, C. E. Brickley '15, S. M. Felton 3d., '13, and S. B. Pennock '15 are given places on the first eleven. D. C. Parmenter '13 and P. L. Wendell '13 are placed at centre and halfback, respectively, on the second eleven. Yale contributes two men, Bomeisler and Ketcham, and Princeton one to the first eleven; while on the three elevens combined Yale has four men and Princeton three...
...given each year at the Library. A series of six lectures on "The Opera", by Mr. Olin Downes, musical critic of the Boston Post, two of which have already been given, will complete this year's series. The lectures will be practical rather than theoretical, and frequent references to current plays in Boston will add local interest...