Word: groups
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Lowell began his talk by briefly outlining the "elective-group" system, a comparatively recent institution at the University. He explained the four groups under which all courses are classed. The first question that arises is, What group shall a Freshman take as a main group? In advising what choice to make here, President Lowell warned men against selecting a large number of studies in a subject which they naturally dislike...
This meeting of the members of 1916 will be of utmost importance to every man in the class. The Faculty requires every Freshman to decide by May 1 what work he expects to do for the remainder of his college course. President Lowell, who introduced the recently adopted "elective-group" system, will give an exposition of the requirements, and an outline of the general aims, much as he did last year...
...evident from the above statement of plan and purpose that the latest issue of the Monthly is unusual. More important--it appears, from the quality of the articles included, that the editors' venture was wise. Mr. Santayana will be happy to see his work so warmly appreciated by the group of men who have thus undertaken to discuss it, and will be particularly gratified to recognize that in so doing they have caught something of his own rare spirit. His own attitude--judicial but generous, frank but reverent, cultivated but strong--is reflected in their essays concerning his. Nor does...
Ground was broken for Smith Hall, one of the three new Freshman dormitories, yesterday morning. Work on this building and Standish Hall, the second of the group, will be pushed now so that the excavations will be completed before the close of the College year...
...cannot hope to discover and crystallize undergraduate opinion unless its discussions are participated in by men from every branch of College activities. No student should be content to sit idly by while questions of the utmost importance to himself and the University are being disposed of by a small group of men passing current for an entirely representative body. The all-important question of the gymnasium and its relation to physical education are the subjects of discussion for this evening, and it is unquestionably to the interest of every Harvard man to sea that this meeting is well attended...