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...undergraduate who wishes to try for Honors in Literature must present a program of courses and subjects for the approval of the Chairman of the Committee on Honors in Literature not later than the end of his Junior year. These honors are awarded at graduation. Their purpose is two-fold: to offer a plan, supplementary to the existing schemes for honors, that will encourage undergraduates to combine reading in the Classics with reading in the Modern Languages, and to offer students an opportunity to count private reading as well as work done in connection with courses...
...three-fold capacity as an organizing power for the "Harvard forward" movement in Boston, as an entertainer of the University's guests and especially as host to various groups of members of the University, the Harvard Club of Boston has become an in valuable aid to the institution to which it owes allegiance. In its first year of active existence it exerted a strong influence in bringing together the many graduates in the vicinity of Boston and in associating them more closely with the University, two achievements of great benefit to the undergraduates and to the University at large. Moreover...
...physical education, and the stream of influence that has been carried by two thousand pupils from this Gymnasium has brought about many of the improvements in methods, construction, and equipment, etc., which now seem so necessary to the students of Harvard. Although attendance at the Gymnasium has increased four-fold, two Law School, two Medical School, and two Scientific School buildings have been erected at Harvard since the Hemenway Gymnasium was built...
Professor Palmer, the second speaker, devoted himself to the subject of college chapel. Its value is three-fold: it cultivates the habit of punctuality by giving definiteness to the first hours of the day; it is an intellectual stimulus; it provides a religious stimulus. L. K. Lunt speaking for the undergraduates, urged appreciation of the opportunities offered here and warned against hasty judgments or harsh censure...
...most important features of the School will be the practical work required of each student in the summer. The object of this work will be two-fold, first, to teach the students from practical experience and observation the elements of business that cannot be taught in the class-room, and secondly, to bring them in contact with the men with whom their life work is to be done. Incidentally the summer work will be useful in accustoming every student to the rough work and routine through which, if at all, his university training may enable him to rise. The School...