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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Owing to the small number of men who have applied up to the present time for the 1909 Union Dance, it has been found necessary to extend the time for receiving applications to Tuesday night. 1909 UNION DANCE COMMITTEE...
...with monopolizing the air and books of Gore Hall for hours at a time must needs appropriate for their exclusive use the volumes most in demand. As long as they are actually using the books no one can severely censure them except for dullness; but when they attempt to found a private library by stealthy and underhand methods, it is time for all fairminded frequenters of the Library, as well as the less studiously inclined, to constitute themselves into a detective agency and bring the offenders under the fire of public opinion, if not of more summary justice...
Reflecting on his own struggle to get an education, he resolved to found a school where the poorest boys and girls might learn and at the same time pay all the expenses of their education. This resolution was carried out in the Idaho Industrial Institute which he founded eight years ago with the help of five or six friends. Twenty students were admitted at that time. Today the school has increased to a remarkable degree and still there is a waiting list of over 200 who cannot be accommodated. The lecture will be open only to members of the Union...
Last evening in Phillips Brooks House President Eliot addressed a meeting of the Harvard Menorah Society and representatives and the Jewish race from many of the New England colleges. He began by saying that Harvard University was founded for the search of truth and freedom, and that in this spirit the students of Semitic descent were received. The Jewsih race, he said, had a history piteous and full of pathos, and that it remembered three great captivities and times when it had had freedom only to think and hope, and but that now in this land it had found freedom...
...balance of trade in brains, in favor of Europe or America? Where does the student go who wishes to be a master in physics, in zoology, in psychology, or any other field of learning? Not to any University in America. The greatest scholars of the world today are found in German, France, and England, not in America. Of the 43 men of the whole world who are pre-eminent in the 20 major branches of learning, we name only three who are Americans: Professor Richards, of Harvard, in chemistry; Professor Michaelson, of the University of Chicago, in Physics, and Henry...