Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman's introduction to the University is not complete until he meets Professor Copeland and hears him read. An opportunity to meet him and hear him is afforded tonight when he will give a reading in Smith Hall at nine. Few "sermons to Freshmen" are more effective or more apt to be remembered than "The 'Eathen" as Professor Copeland reads...
...gives Freshmen an opportunity to hear and meet President Lowell, Dean Briggs and other men prominent in the life of the University and to learn about the new world before them...
...class of 1918 should be especially desirous to hear President Lowell, to whom 1918 and all the Freshman classes of the future, owe so much. President Lowell has devoted particular attention to the welfare of the first year man. He made possible the new Freshman dormitories, whose value to their comfort, and even more to their unity, the Freshmen must already have come to realize...
...peculiar feature of morning prayer during the early period of Harvard's history was that after the exercises the President was accustomed to hear public confessions from the students in the presence of all the classes and officers and to administer discipline which consisted of degradation, admonition, or expulsion, according to the nature of the offence. Many instances of humiliating acknowledgement of error and sin are recorded. In the diary of President Leavitt is found the following extract: "November 4, 1712, A-- was publicly admonished in the College Hall, and there confessed his sinful excess, and his enormous profanation...
...Country are holding their annual meeting at Chicago. The importance of these yearly gatherings is apt to be underestimated, but it must be remembered that the graduates constitute a great living force of the University and they spread her reputation and fame throughout the world. When they assemble and hear, as they will this year, of remarkable expansion of the University in material and in other ways, a great deal of good is bound to result. This meeting should eclipse all that have gone before from the standpoint of attendance and influence for the advancement of the University...