Word: establish
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...George L. Baxter '63 of Somerville has given to the University the sum of $524.80 to establish a new scholarship with an income of $250 to be called the Somerville Scholarship. It will be awarded to a graduate of a public preparatory school of Somerville in his first year at Harvard...
...change of department would be of any real service. Men usually know what they can get along in leg before the flunking time comes around. Rather, however, than fail to aid the one person who is in a position to benefit by the system, it is perhaps better to establish it likewise for the "ninety-and-nine just persons" who need no such provision. At all events, the college that adopts this principle cannot be said to be behind the times in its education view-point...
...American University Union in Europe which was established during the war to aid college men in the United States Army and Navy as well as those engaged in other activities in England, France and Italy, has now been organized upon a peace basis. The first work of the organization will be to establish a permanent home in Paris, where it may continue the work that made it so valuable during the war. The Board of Trustees has inaugurated a campaign to secure a donor or a group of them, for the building. In addition to this, an endowment fund...
...Commerce will give a complimentary dinner in honor of students from non-English speaking countries attending the educational institutions of Greater Boston on Thursday evening of this week at 6.30 o'clock in the ball room of the Copley-Plaza Hotel. The Purpose of this dinner will be to establish a closer relationship between the men who represent the business interests of Boston and the foreign students who are the future leaders of their respective countries. Among the speakers at the dinner will be President Eliot...
...would seem advisable for the faculty to establish a course similar to History A, open only to Seniors preparing for the divisional examinations, covering in one half-year the required books of the ancients; in the other, the prescribed works of the great modern authors. Lectures by professors, authorities in the literature of the various ages under discussion, would give the student a more comprehensive grasp of the true significance of the books they were reading. In any case, the present system is unsatisfactory, and, unless some action is taken to lessen the general indefinite feeling about the new requirements...