Word: directing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...June 19, and arriving in Northfield in the evening in time for the opening exercises of the Convention. The expenses are as follows: registration fee, $5; round trip ticket from Boston, about $4; room and board, $13, or $2.10 per day for part of the time. There is a direct route from New London to Northfield so that it would be possible for men to attend the boat races...
...calls forcible attention to the service which such an institution can render to scholarship as well as the University. This list of more than 230 books, dealing with many subjects all intimately connected with the teaching and research carried on at the University, indicates more clearly than could any direct statement the healthy growth of productive scholarship at Harvard. The distribution of this list is but one of the many ways in which the Harvard Press is making this scholarship known throughout the world...
...growing conception of the times that a university should serve the community not alone as an educational institution but by direct co-operation with the State. The importance of this newer conception of the university's position is most strikingly seen in those Western states where the so-called "Wisconsin idea" has been definitely applied. With the constant trend towards "state socialism," the necessity for such expert advice as a university alone can adequately supply grows ever greater. Concrete expression of this sentiment was given in the submission of a bill to Congress during the past winter for the establishment...
...seem to have gone nearly far enough to satisfy the superintendents. "That the needed change has been so long in coming," says the report, "is largely the fault of the public school men, who have been content to accept the proposition that the college has an inherent right to direct the high school course." Many radical departures from even the newest plans of entrance requirements are proposed. If the changes come slowly it should at least be reassuring to the New England teachers that five Eastern colleges of the importance of those we have named have recognized the need themselves...
...clock. The members of the University Glee Club will occupy a special reserved section on the floor, and will sing several songs during the intermission as well as one number on the regular program. Three undergraduates will have individual parts on the program. L. G. del Castillo '14 will direct the Symphony Orchestra for his Fantasia on Harvard Airs, and J. R. O. Perkins '14 and A. F. Pickernell '14 will sing "My Cousin Caruse...