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...specialization it is refreshing to find somebody who combines the functions o teacher and pupil, of the orizer and practical man. Harvard is the first University in the country, and, possibly, in the world, to create a chair o foreign trade; and the man who has been chosen to fill it--Professor George B. Roorbach--has had a chance to put his ideas into practice. The creation of the new chair is the latest chapter in the growth of interest in the science of economics which has been the most notable alteration of recent years in Harvard's curriculum. Professor...
...First, the statement that within approximately six weeks there had occurred twenty-eight attacks on white women by negroes, with the resulting conviction and sentence of one negro. As I understand the write, this an was sentenced to serve only six months in jail, although it was stated that he was identified by three women, presumably victims of his attacks. There was absolutely lacking any proof of these twenty-eight alleged attacks--the facts are merely alleged, and no alleged fact without supporting evidence can or does stand before the law. If it was impossible to secure evidence or apprehend...
Included on the fall publication list of the Harvard University Press, to be ready for sale on November 15, are three new books by members of the University Faculty. The first of these, "The Italian Emigration of Our Times," by Robert F. Foerster '06, Professor of Social Ethics at the University, considers the emigration question from the Italian point of view, investigates both the causes of the recent great migration from Italy and its effect on the countries which it strikes. He gives especial consideration to the Italian in this country and outlines a general emigration policy for Italy...
...first of October of the year for which he is elected have completed at least his Sophomore year at some recognized degree granting university or college of the United States in which they are now studying or from that in which they have received the major part of their education...
...basis of a man's record in college according to the four points outlined in the Rhodes will: (1) scholarship, (2) character, (3) interest in outdoor sports, (4) interest in one's fellow, and instincts for leadership. Of these qualifications the greatest emphasis is laid upon the first...