Word: harvard
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...current number of the Lampoon, which is devoted to football, has more wit and originality than any preceding number this year. But it is prevented from being uniformly excellent by the pointless and offensive looking blot which is entitled "A short guide to Harvard University." The editorials are perhaps the best literary contributions, although the Irishman's point of view in "McGinnis at the Yale game," an imitation of Mr. Dooley, is amusing and ends pointedly. The editorial on the distribution of Yale game tickets lacks the overdone tone of previous ones and is timely, but might be improved...
...final trial, held last night in the Fogg Lecture Room, R. C. Bruce '02, H. B. Kirtland '01, and W. Morse '00, with E. Mayer '00 as alternate, were chosen to represent Harvard in debate against Princeton. Kirtland was awarded the Coolidge prize of $100 as the one who had done best in the trials...
...preliminary debates have been held in the American Whig and the Cliosophic Literary Societies to decide upon the four men to represent each Hall in the Inter-Hall debate to be held Friday, Nov. 17. From these men a team of six will be chosen for the debate with Harvard. The Spencer Trask prize of fifty dollars will be given to the man doing the best work in these preliminary debates...
...Twentieth Century Club's course of lectures on the theme of "Development of Educational Ideas and Institutions," two lectures will be given by Harvard professors. One will be delivered Feb. 24 by Professor Hanus on "Secondary Education and Its Development," and the other on March 8 by Professor Royce on "The Development of the Social Mind...
...field of experimental psychology here at Harvard has been broadened by the introduction of animal psychology. Two rooms in Upper Dane are being equipped with vivaria and apparatus for experimentation. Professor Munsterberg is encouraging work along this line, and it is hoped that the University now has the nucleus of what will soon become a special laboratory of animal psychology...