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...college, as well as the captain of the baseball team. For the last three years he has been the head coach at Phillips-Exeter Academy, where he has had unusual success in developing material and building up teams. The committee also ratified the appointment of M. F. Sweeney as general athletic adviser at Yale. He was the former holder of the world's championship in the broad-jump, and for the last few years has been the athletic coach at the Hill School, Pottstown, Pa. The following men were appointed to the graduate advisory committee, to have full charge...
...More than two years ago Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology entered into an agreement for co-operative instruction in certain scientific subjects, to be conducted out of the income of the Gordon McKay Endowment. It is generally known that the Harvard Corporation has filed with the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts a bill for instructions to determine whether the income from this endowment can be used as the Agreement provides. The general situation may be summarized as follows...
...Agreement provides, in general, that the University and Technology 'shall co-operate in the conduct of courses leading to degrees in Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Sanitary Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy and in the promotion of research in those branches of applied science,' and that the work shall be conducted in the new Technology buildings in Cambridge. To these purposes Harvard will devote not less than three-fifths of the net income of the Gordon McKay Endowment and all of the net income from funds now credited to the Lawrence Scientific School. The Institute will devote the principal and income...
...especially important that Harvard should be the first North American university to enter the new field. For, though it may seem peculiar, Harvard is practically unknown in South America, outside of the highest educational circles. As a rule, people of high standing in general public affairs either do not know of the University's existence, or else have vague ideas concerning it. To them, education in the United States connotes Columbia, Yale, and Pennsylvania; for in past years the lecturers which these universities have sent to South America--at very indefinite intervals, to be sure--have given the well-informed...
Misunderstanding has arisen among undergraduates concentrating in the Division of History, Government and Economics,--Group III,--through misconstruing the purpose of the final general examination and the tutorial system. Feeling that the addition of a little extra work is a needlessly heavy burden, the undergraduate rebels without giving the matter any thought. To him it appears only that the Office is tampering with his proverbial freedom, forcing him to make a change in his standards--and his aversion to change is great, for he is a follower of custom...