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In the affairs of the College the most significant movement during the year was that looking toward a modification of the elective system. It has been truly said that the opportunities for education in our universities are now enormous, and that the immediate problem before us is to bring the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT LOWELL'S REPORT | 5/2/1910 | See Source »

Religion is not coextensive with ecclesiastical institutions, nor with traditions, nor with belief in supernatural beings, nor with faith alone; it does not consist of such philosophical doctrines as the doctrine of God and immortality: religion grows out of the consciousness of a disproportion between our destiny and our powers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. Boutroux on "Intelligence" | 3/18/1910 | See Source »

The Student Council has begun to receive suggestions. Although there has been as yet not even a nominating committee appointed to propose names for election next fall, the Council is taken as a matter of course by at least one man who evidently believes in the usefulness of the Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARS VS. ATHLETES. | 6/2/1908 | See Source »

Assistant Professor A. C. Coolidge says: "I believe that the Uitlanders have had many causes of just complaint, that the policy of the Boers has often been short-sighted and that England is acting as any other great power would probably act in her place. I sympathize with the Boers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BRITISH-BOER WAR | 1/5/1900 | See Source »

Mr. W. R. Thayer '81 has compiled a list of class marshals since 1870 with their residences, clubs and athletic records, and has made up the following summary: "It appears that Massachusetts is to be credited with exactly two-thirds of the marshals; that more than seven-ninths of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRADUATES' MAGAZINE. | 12/4/1899 | See Source »

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