Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...subject for debate is as follows: "Resolved. That the United States Should Establish a Temporary Protectorate in Mexico Until Order and Stable Government is a Possibility." Five-minute speeches are to be prepared...
...suggestive concession to utilitarian ideas of education. It is the fatal first step? Will there yet be regular courses in plumbing at Harvard and post graduate instruction in gas-fitting? Will retired bathtub manufacturers endow professorships there and steel-makers and motor car manufacturers found technical schools and establish scholarships in their lines? There are more things in a modern college education than were once dreamed of. New York World...
...Alumni Association has wisely taken advantage of the occasion to commence a campaign for a $200,000 endowment fund for the Divinity School, which it is hoped to raise from friends of the School. Of this amount the committee plans to set aside $100,000 to establish a new professorship of social ethics and pastoral care, to be named in honor of Professor Francis Greenwood Peabody '69, for many years Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Dean of the Divinity School, also widely known as a preacher and an authority on social problems. The additional $100,000 will be applied...
...enrolled in Military Science and Tactics 1 will decide whether Harvard remains in the van of the preparedness movement. The tradition of voluntary military service, born in the days of Revolutionary and Civil wars, was continued and strengthened by the formation of the Regiment last year. The failure to establish two units of the reserve officers' training corps at Harvard will shatter the tradition. The country must have reserve officers to lead the volunteer units and Harvard, instead of showing one hundred and fifty men in training, ought to show her proportionate share, six hundred future reserve officers...
...100th anniversary of its recognition as a professional school distinct from Harvard College. The alumni do not admit that the School is only a century old for they date its foundation back to October, 1636, when the General Court of the newly settled colony voted money to establish the college, "dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministry shall lie in the dust." Instruction in theology was given in the college from the time of its first opening, and the first professorship instituted was the Hollis professorship of divinity, established in 1721. The differentiation...