Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Gore Hall Common Room tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. H. F. Colt '22, president of the class, will preside, and Dr. A. T. Davison, '06 will give a short speech. Dr. Davison, who has coached singing at the Freshman jubilees since the custom was started will explain the character of the festivities. The purpose of the meeting is not only to bring the matter before the class but to give the Executive Committee an idea of the class sentiment in regard to the undertaking. The chief difficulty in the production of a jubilee this year is the fact that...
...Class of 1922 will have a Jubilee this year or not will be decided at a mass meeting of the class in the Gore Hall Common Room Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. The meeting will be addressed by Dr. A. T. Davison '06, who will outline and explain the purpose of these events. Following his talk the class will express by vote their opinion on the question of organizing dormitory choruses and holding the Jubilee next spring...
Harvard has the facilities and the courses which make her a particularly desirable university for this national need. One thing she lacks: advertisement. It is the fault of Harvard graduates that their confidence in the Alma Mater's superiority never permits them to explain her advantages. But because her advantages are so well understood by them is no assurance that others understand. Harvard needs the southerner and westerner. Unless she is to dwindle into a local university she must recruit more of her sons from the great regions beyond New England. They bring a new point of view which stimulates...
...instance, what courses will he want? Modern European History, of course, which can explain to him the sources of the War which he has been fighting. Economics, by all means, which will give a background for the business life he intends to take up, for the reconstruction problems which must be solved. He will expect much of the University as he returns from the biggest experience of his life. His desire to learn will be greater than ever before...
...only possible because of the release of large numbers of troops from the Eastern front for service in the West and because of the fact that on a large front either side can secretly concentrate troops for a temporary advance. Yet even these factors can scarcely explain why Germany has troop superiority over England, France and America combined...