Word: dean
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...reception given by the Faculty for the Graduate School was held last night in the Faculty room in University hall. About two hundred and fifty members of the School were present and and a number of members of the Faculty. Dean Wright presided and after welcoming both the old and the new men, spoke briefly on the function of a university. He said it had three aims--the conservation, the transmission and the advancement of knowledge. The first of these is accomplished by museums, the second by the education of raw material, and the third by the promotion of research...
...other articles by Harvard men in the current magazines the most interesting is Dean Briggs's essay on "College Honor" in the Atlantic Monthly...
...opening of the Graduate School, with Professor West as Dean, marks another step in the growth of the University in professional departments. Another important change announced at the opening of college, was the decision to put the scientific school on an equality with the academic department, as regards entrance requirements and undergraduate work. Hitherto this department has received insufficient attention in comparison to its importance, and its enrolment has always been remarkably small...
...Dean Briggs contributes a much needed article on "College Honor" to the October number of the Atlantic Monthly. It is in a way an elaboration of the talk given to Freshmen in English A and received by too many of them with polite indifference. To read the beliefs and hopes expressed in the article regarding the character of the undergraduate of today should be a welcome opportunity to anyone interested in college life. To quote part of the opening paragraph: "To an American college, the word of all words is 'truth'. 'Veritas' is the motto of Harvard; 'Lux et Veritas...
...interest." "Rambles through the College Yard," by Mr. Hurlbut, is the first of these articles, and in it is an earnest appeal for the rehabitation of the Yard as a favored living place for students. Appropriately preceding Mr. Hurlbut's article are three inspiring verses "To Harvard College," by Dean Brigg. The only other contributions in this number, except for a sonnet and a short poem, are part of the Bowdoin Prize Essay for 1900-01, which is a comparison of Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" with the play "Becky Sharp," and an unoriginal story called "Sailor Jack's First Voyage...