Word: discuss
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Pickering said that he would speak on the work of the Harvard Observatory, but that first he would discuss a subject of wider interest--namely the qualifications which a scientific man should have who is in charge of some institution. This is the era of consolidation. A man can no longer work by himself, but must work in connection with others. A scientific man, to be qualified to direct consolidated work must not be the kind of a man a professor was at one time supposed to be--entirely above mundane affairs-- he must have a technical knowledge...
...eleven o'clock there is a general "plat from meeting, " at which an address is made by some speaker of national reputation and real power. In the evening at sunset there takes place the "Round Top" meeting, at which the college student's greatest problem--his life work--is discussed. After this comes the delegation meeting, where students from each college, assembled separately, discuss the problems of their own institutions...
...Harvard football management will meet the Yale management next Saturday in the New Haven House at New Haven to discuss the financial arrangements for the game next fail. Later in the day they will meet the football management of the University of Pennsylvania in New York...
...important meeting of the Freshman Class will be held in Lower Massachusetts this evening at 7, to discuss plans for a Class Dinner...
...informal meeting of the secretaries of several graduate classes held late in the fall, a committee was appointed to discuss plans for the formation of an organization of class secretaries. This committee met and on December 24 sent out a report advising the formation of an organization to be called "The Association of Harvard Class Secretaries;" Also that a permanent Committee be formed, to consist of three, one of whom should be the secretary of the association; and that this committee be chosen at a dinner to be held at the Parker House, Boston, on Friday...