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...fast and has not been scored on in any of its games this season. Three games have been played; the Massachusetts Agricultural College held Maine to a 0 to 0 tie, but Fort McKinley was defeated 6 to 0, and New Hampshire State College 16 to 0. Last year the University team won a 16 to 0 victory over Maine in the second game of the season...
...annual joint meeting of the members of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, of the Graduate School of Applied Science and the Graduate School of Business Administration was held last evening in the Faculty Room in University Hall. Professor C. H. Haskins, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, presided, and, after reviewing briefly the history of the graduate departments of the University, introduced as the chief speaker of the evening Professor Eduard Meyer, exchange professor from the University of Berlin...
President Lowell was the last speaker of the evening. He pointed to one of the chief defects in the graduate of American schools of applied science as that of timidity in attacking large problems. Students too often begin with low ideals and try to attain greater ones, whereas the reverse should be the rule to follow. In their studies, students are inclined to wait for their instructors to tell them how and why to do their work. "The true scholar," said President Lowell, "does not wait for a Professor to come along with a lantern and show...
During the past week there has been a great stride in the development of the three University crews, especially in the work of the first eight, during the latter half of the week. The men who changed positions in the early part of last week have become accustomed to their new seats and the eight as a whole is very much better together. On Wednesday all three eights went down-stream and and on the return row the work of the University crew was good. Thursday's row brought even better results and the eight showed the best form...
After attending the inaugural ceremonies by which Ernest Fox Nichols was officially installed as president of Dartmouth College, yesterday, President Lowell returned to Cambridge late last evening. Of the seventeen honorary degrees conferred, two came to the delegates from the University. Upon both President Lowell and President Emeritus Eliot was conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws...