Word: harvarder
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...commemorate the three hundred and second anniversary of the birth of John Harvard, which historians have placed on November 29, 1607, although the date is not certain, the preacher at the morning prayers in Appleton Chapel on Monday morning, the Rev. Francis J. McConnell, D.D., LL.D., president of De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, will select his subject with special reference to the occasion. Last year this service was omitted, but the three hundredth anniversary in 1907 was made the occasion of a great undergraduate celebration. It is expected that henceforth the birthday will be marked by a brief address similar...
...Harvard Dramatic Club announces a series of lectures to be given this winter by men prominent in the dramatic profession. The subject of the course will be the drama in general. Mr. Percy MacKaye '97, author of "The Scarecrow," will deliver the first in this series in Emerson Hall the third week in December. Mr. H. T. Parker, dramatic critic of the Boston Transcript, has been secured to speak in January and the club expects to schedule Mr. Forbes-Robertson some time during his stay in Boston. As it is difficult to procure actors in advance, many of these lectures...
...success of the Harvard cross-country team in the season just closed has prompted an inquiry into the conditions under which this sport is carried on. Accordingly the CRIMSON gives this morning a brief history of cross-country running here...
Many of the garments and other articles lost at Soldiers Field on Saturday were sent to the Locker Building and are now held by the Harvard Athletic Association. These have been listed and will be returned upon identification to the losers, who should immediately send a description of the lost article to the Graduate Treasurer, Cambridge. Although the Athletic Association is in no way responsible for lost articles, a corps of men was employed to pick up and return them to the Locker Building after the game...
...University teas is perpetuated the hospitality which in early days the officers of the University were accustomed to extend in their homes. That these receptions must now be held in Phillips Brooks House is a necessity of the growth of Harvard, and does not change the character of the welcome which is extended. It is a problem in this place to establish between students and instructors any relation less precise than that of the lecture room; but University teas, if accepted by the undergraduates in the same cordial spirit in which they are maintained by the University, will do much...