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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...they were also revolutionary in the general field of education at that time. The development of the elective system gradually displaced an almost completely prescribed curriculum. And the three year course for the A. B. degree was introduced at his direction to shorten the college period for those who found the preparation for professional schools too long. That these radical changes were timely is conclusively shown by statistics, for in 1869, the year in which he became President, a total of two hundred and seventy-five degrees were given by the University, while in 1909, the date of his retirement...
...only expected but demanded. In our undergraduate days, few, if any, of us ever realized that the opinion of Harvard College counted for anything, either in the world at large or in the United States. Due to the war and the moving about of men in service we gradually found out that not only was the opinion of the College occasionally listened to in the United States, but even abroad it was taken into consideration as representative of one phase of the best opinion in America. Naturally I am not suggesting that Harvard undergraduates can have any great effect upon...
Announcement of the contest was first made last year, but it was found impossible to hold the debate. This year, candidates may choose any subject connected with French civilization...
...hard for us to understand how people can have found the English language serviceable from the days of Chaucer to our own without the new and now widely employed term "bolshevism." What does it mean? Answer: The result that will follow the success of the other fellow's idea...
...would seem like marking time. Ask our men which they would rather have: endowments or high salaries. Get rid of the money-grubbers. Although we would then, by no means, be free from all the quacks that infest Cambridge, still in the company of those who would remain are found men in whom alone Harvard has real existence...