Word: groups
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...most significant feature of the activities of the Christian Association has been the organization of the Bible Study department. Many group classes led by upperclassmen and graduates have met weekly in dormitories and private houses for study of the Bible. The department owes especial thanks to Dean Hodges, Professor Ropes, and Mr. W. H. Tinker of the Mt. Vernon Street Church for their generous co-operation in conducting several groups. In addition to the regular work of the department, a course of eight lectures by Professors Platner, Royce, and Peabody was arranged for members of the Law and Graduate Schools...
...spring of 1908 a movement of considerable importance was initiated by a group of members of the Association. As a result a series of meetings of strictly evangelical character was conducted under the auspices of the Association, and although some opposition was raised on the ground that they laid too great emphasis on the theological tenets of christianity, yet, in the light of the year's work that followed, it has been well proved that they drew a group of men who would not otherwise have been reached...
...that a few find out that logic is monotonous to them is absolutely insignificant. The elementary courses of Professor Palmer and Professor Santayana are also not favored by any one. This result is still more grotesque, since both men figure at the top of the list with the middle group courses. Professor Palmer's ethics is the course most favored in the whole University; but his elementary course on Greek philosophy is not favored by any one. Does it mean that the quality of the courses is different? Not at all. The one course is taken by about twenty...
...College in 1869, says Professor Kuehnemann (who evidently has only the formal instruction in view), was like a German gymnasium, surrounded by a group of professional schools with low standards of admission and "merely practical aims." The work of President Eliot, he continues, has consisted in turning these schools into places for graduate and theoretical study; in leading the College from "the easy-going pursuit of prescribed courses" and "the drill system" to "a thoroughly scholarly training, befitting the dignity and importance of the learned professions"; and finally, in inducing the preparatory schools to raise their standards, diversify their teaching...
...birth of Oliver Wendell Holmes; a centenary which from a Harvard standpoint stands out in special prominence. Holmes was graduated from Harvard College with the famous class of 1829, immortalized in many of his lighter poems. His name has always been closely associated with that distinguished New England group of men of letters which attained so enviable a position in the second half of the last century. As poet, essayist and physician, Holmes was equally successful. He lectured for many years in the Harvard Medical School, and his standing in his profession was always notably high. To be commemorated...