Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...most important article in the number is "College Work and the A.B. in Three Years" by Professor Edwin H. Hall, which discusses the question as to whether or not it is feasible for the undergraduates body as a whole to change from a four-year course to a three-year course, without reducing the sum total of work accomplished by the ordinary student. To obtain trustworthy data on this question, about fifty students were selected from the "middle third" of each of the four college classes, from whom statistics were made. Some of the results are printed below, taking...
...never see the building for which they subscribed. For their benefit a pamphlet has been prepared and is now being sent out by the Building Committee of Brooks House, consisting of Professor F. G. Peabody, Professor G. H. Palmer, Dr. E. Winchester Donald, Dr. George A. Gordon '81, Dr. Edwin H. Abbott '55, and Mr. Robert Treat Paine '55. The pamphlet contains an account of the opening of the building with the speeches there delivered, a list of several hundred contributors, and the statement of the Treasurer, beside many photographs, a description of the building, and other data bearing directly...
...Copeland's Life of Edwin Booth, to be published in the Beacon Biographies series, there will be a number of hitherto unpublished letters from Booth to Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich who was one of his life long friends...
...following persons have been appointed upon the committee: Chairman, Frank A. Hill, Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education; from the colleges President, Arthur T. Hadley, L.L.D. '99, of Yale; President L. Clark Seelye, of Smith College; Professor William MacDonald of Bowdoin; Professor Edwin H. Hall; Miss Mary Coes, secretary of Radcliffe College; from the preparatory schools -- Mr. George H. Browne '78, of the Browne and Nichols School; Dr. Robert P. Keep of Norwich Academy, Connecticut; Mr. Eugene D. Russell '80 of the Lynn Classical School; Mr. Harlan P. Amen '79, of Phillips Exeter Academy; Mr. Howard M. Rice...
...Coolidge, 1,000.00 Purchase of Riant Collection. A.C. Coolidge, 1,187.14 Purchase of books. R.W. Shepard Fund, 10,000.00 Income to be used for Phillips Brooks House. Mr. and Mrs. Quincy, A. Shaw, Mrs. Henry L. Higginson, and Mr. Alexander Agassiz, 100,000.00 For extension of University Museum. Edwin F. Atkins, 2,500.00 William A. and Herbert Wadsworth, 26,500.00 Mr. Elliot C. Lee, 25,000.00 Mr. E.C. Hammer, 500.00 Jacob N. Schiff, 10,000.00 -------- Total...