Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Educating Mexico is an undertaking not to be entered upon lightly. The task of bringing a people from educational darkness into light is one which calls for an administrator of the utmost tact and executive ability, for unselfish devotion on the part of a large body of professors, and for considerable funds of money. It may be expected to yield large results, not only in the regeneration of Mexico, but in the promotion of more amicable relations between the two sister republics of North America. The Mexicans have neither the resources nor the equipment to educate themselves...
...competition is open to all undergraduates except Seniors, and Freshmen and Sophomores are especially wanted, as successful candidates will be in line for the office of assistant business manager next year and for that of business manager the year following. The work is very light and will not take much time, consisting principally of collecting advertisements and a small amount of clerical work...
Considerable light was thrown on the proposed scientific merger of the University and Technology in the hearing Wednesday. Judge Pierce said that he had supposed the question in contest was whether the fund should be administered by Harvard College and the instruction given in a department of the College. Charles F. Choate '88, counsel for the University, replied that the testator was to administer the fund, as it administered other funds. Mr. Choate explained that in the arrangement there is no surrender of the McKay Fund to Technology, as many suppose, that the title to it remains in the University...
Candidates for the positions of second assistant manager, Freshman manager and assistant Freshman manager, will be called out about April 1. The competition will consist of light work in each instance, and will last only seven weeks. With the Freshman managership go class numerals and with the assistant Freshman managership a hat band...
Continuing a plan initiated last year a patrol squadron, consisting of privately owned power boats of high speed armed with light guns of various calibre has been established in the Second Naval District for purposes of patroling and defence against submarines in time of war. The personnel of the boats is composed of such volunteers as may, because of nautical or wireless experience, be accepted as qualified for service...