Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RAMPARTS WE WATCH-George Fielding Eliot-Reynal & Hitchcock...
Cries of over-specialization have been echoing through the buildings of Harvard for many years, in fact these cries have been so insistent that they have not ceased long enough to consider whether or not anything is being done about it. Several years ago in Eliot House joint tutorial conferences were set up in an attempt to draw the students out of the isolation of their own field of concentration and show them that a subject can be approached in more ways than one. Spasmodically a few other Houses pursued the same plan, but it was only the initiative...
...first thought the idea of a physicist and an historian thrashing out a common subject over a conference table seems rather futile. Yet last year there was a highly successful discussion in Eliot House comparing the scientific method with that of the social sciences. Perhaps more feasible, however, is a joint discussion among kindred fields. Next week, for instance, the tutors and tutees in History, History-Literature and Music will approach the question of patronage of the arts, presumably from three different points of view...
President Eliot has just been made the subject of a very undignified practical joke by some unknown person. Engraved cards of invitation to his house for today were sent out in his name. The style of the cards is unlike any he ever had, and the date is written in ink. In addition to this an advertisement stating that he desired to engage a servant girl was inserted in several Boston papers. The result of this is that he had forty or fifty applicants. He sent to the Boston newspapers on Saturday the following statement: President Eliot desires to have...
Siegfried Glodion, Swiss Historian of Art and Architect, and Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer, lecturer last night in the Fogg Museum on "Architectural Inheritance of the Early Renaissance and Late Baroque Periods...