Word: groups
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When we attempt to survey the lifework of Alexander Agassiz, we are astonished at its amount, variety, and quality. He was largely engaged in commercial undertakings; he carried on detailed researches on the group of the Echinoderms; he added scientific knowledge of the great oceans by his deep-sea researches; he travelled more extensively than any other man of his time in studying coral-reefs; and he assisted Harvard, his alma mater, by his generous donations to her museums and other interests...
...first group scholars of the University were the guests of the Cambridge Club at a dinner in Young's Hotel. Boston, last evening. This was in accordance with the desire of the club, which is composed of prominent men of the city, to bring Cambridge and the University into more cordial relations. After the dinner, H. M. Williams '85 read the report of the committee which, in conjunction with a Faculty committee, drew up the plans for closer connection between city and University, which were made public last Saturday. In addition to these provisions, three suggestions were made: first, that...
...Cambridge Club will hold a "Harvard Night" at Young's Hotel, Boston, Monday evening at 6 o'clock. The club will have as its guests for an informal dinner the first group men of the College and members of the Faculty...
...accuse this larger number of students with 32 cuts annually. But, on the other hand, there is a minority of men, many of them active in undergraduate affairs, whose continued cutting brings the average up to one per week for the whole College; and it is in this group that the present situation is really serious. Unlike their more intellectual class-mates, they are well-known, often as "good fellows," and hence their side of College life is far more obvious both to the Office and to the outsider. A small body, they distort by their prominence the true perspective...
...sale at Leavitt & Peirce's for the second small Sophomore dinner to be held in the Trophy Room of the Union on April 6, at 6.30 o'clock. Invitations have been sent out by postal card to the second third of the class, and all men in the first group are also cordially invited, whether or not they attended the first dinner. Acting Dean E.H. Wells '97 will speak, as well as several other prominent graduates and undergraduates. Since the first dinner was not a success from the point of view of numbers, the committee hopes that...