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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Two generations ago the successful debater was the intellectual idol of our colleges, and the art of ex tempore speaking was cultivated by all classes of students. Towards the end of the nineteenth century all this changed very suddenly. The man who a few years before would have been the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACADEMIC HONORS CONFERRED | 12/12/1908 | See Source »

If the prize winners of the college today are the strong men of the nation tomorrow, the strong men of the college tomorrow will all want to be prize winners. When that consummation is reached, and not until then, will intellectual ambition and life come to its own as the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACADEMIC HONORS CONFERRED | 12/12/1908 | See Source »

It is hard for me to adapt myself comfortably to the fact that the Advocate is no longer an organ of College opinion. Can it be that the internal economy of the University is so perfected that there are no continuing evils to assail, no grievances so lasting as to...

Author: By Lindsay SWIFT ., | Title: Review of Current Advocate | 12/11/1908 | See Source »

At a meeting of the directors of the Harvard Dining Association last evening the project of introducing the American plan with board at $5 a week was discussed. The question will be put to a vote of the members of the Association. It was also decided to permit club tables...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meeting of H. D. A. Directors | 12/10/1908 | See Source »

Many charges have been made by the New York newspapers that burglary has been increasing, due to the inefficiency of the police and detective forces. There is no possible proof that crime is on the increase, because, up to last year, only an imperfect and fragmentary record of the cases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW YORK POLICE FORCES | 12/9/1908 | See Source »

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