Word: giving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Souls' College allows itself one big celebration every hundred years. The night All Souls' was consecrated, Chichele, it is said, went up on the roof of the college to give thanks to God for the completion of his work. And there he came upon a mallard duck, which was resting there. He gave thanks for the lucky omen, for the mallard was the badge of his family, and told the newly appointed Fellows that once every hundred years, they should all go up on the roof of the college and look for a mallard, and if they found one they...
...instruction. The university professors would teach; and the students of each college, under the supervision and by the advice of the master of the college, would select their courses. The system of general university electives would be combined with prescribed home courses in each individual college. The master would give tone and character to his college, and to each individual student in it. The final degree, bearing the name and seal of Harvard, would be conferred as the result of examinations in common, all the colleges competing...
During May the Club will give a series of concerts on the steps of Widener Library, and, in June, will sing at commencement...
Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker, Sanford Professor of English Literature at Yale, will give a course on the English painters of the 17th and 18th centuries, for the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard during the second half of the academic year 1929-30. He will be on sabbatical leave from Yale during the whole of that academic year...
...coming lectures of Henry Osborn Taylor will give the University an opportunity to hear one of her most widely read graduates. Interested primarily in the tracing of the shifting, currents of thought throughout the ages, the author of "The Medieval Mind" has the rare faculty of carrying his reader into the spirit of a bygone era without losing perspective...