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...been originally planned by the Master, the tutors, and the House committee that there should be a House dinner for the members of Lowell House some time before the Christmas recess. This dinner would differ from the customary High Table dinners in that there would be speeches and a general got together of all the members of the House. Then it was thought fitting to give this House Dinner in honor of President Lowell on his birthday, and the President has accepted the invitation...
...entrance requirements, too, differ entirely from the ones now in use. In 1820 the prospective student had to be: "Well versed in the grammar of the English, Latin and Greek languages; in 'Virgil', Cicero's 'Select Orations', 'Salust', 'The Greek Testament', Dalzel's 'Collectanea Graeca Minora', 'Latin and Greek Prosody', 'Arithmetick', and 'Ancient and Modern Geography...
...Alexander G. Ruthven, president of the University of Michigan, has found occasion to differ with the editors of the Michigan Daily. The cause for this rift is a number of editorials which ran recently in the paper and which Dr. Ruthven characterizes as "tasteless and objectionable." The editorials themselves are not on hand but from the subjects given it is possible to deduce that they contained quite a bit of truth--truth that hurt some people's sensibilities. One of them criticizes the conduct of the American Legion members in their recent convention at Detroit, another disagreed with the dean...
...Faculty numbers 12, and there are no exchange professors. French and American methods of doing business differ in so many respects that it would be idle for an American to lecture to French classes. Nevertheless, the Centre offers one course in French and one in German each year, usually a series of lectures by prominent business men; in this way those who profess knowledge of these languages may give proof of their ability...
...working now upon two things,'' he said. ''First, an explanation based upon pure mathematics of certain things which Professor Einstein has also attempted to explain. My conclusions in certain respects differ from and to that extent tend to disprove the Einstein Theory. . . . My explanations of natural phenomena are not so involved as his. They are simpler, and when I am ready to make a full announcement it will be seen that I have proved my conclusions...