Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Butin closed with the hope that the Harvard men who made the first discoveries would return to find more. His statement points to a fact which can scarcely be brought to light to often that a modern university is not only a storehouse of past learning, but a center for the gathering of new knowledge an agency which covers the glabe, from the Amazon and the Andes to the forbidden mountains of Tibet. Berein lies perhaps the answer to those who for one reason or another have questioned, from the founding of the first university, the worth of such...
...advance of admission. The scholastic aptitude test assisted in the determination of the classes of 1930 and 1931 at Harvard, and has given reliable and illuminating information concerning the 15,000 candidates who have been examined during its experimental years of 1926 and 1927. Regarded no longer in the light of an experiment, the scholastic aptitude test has become more than an assertion of the university's right to measure the candidate's intelligence as well as his language preparation. It is evidence of increasing selectivity in the college's tastes, together with a development of sensitivity whose...
Most curious of all is the rule that every car must carry a green light to identify the driver as a student. Such a ruling, it adopted at Harvard, would prevent the law from molesting any of the town as long as the gown was accessible. But a financial panic in Harvard Square would be the result of the auto rental rules, a disaster that would be comparable only to that historic incident in which hundreds lost all but the clothes on their backs the great Valeteria Bubble...
...imagination. I have in mind not only the inestimable value of his active cooperation and wise counsel to the school which, at his request, was established in Cambridge to provide opportunities for his own boys; but also a bit of personal experience in that connection which throws a significant light on his character...
Such a summary of a man whom Mr. Norton greatly admired is not unfitting when considered in the light of his own character. One of a noble tradition of men who were worthy scholars and at the same time great teachers, Charles Eliot Norton left an influence on Harvard University which has yet to be dimmed. The study of the Fine Arts, to which he devoted his entire career, flourishes; and the respect for teachers whose humanity has not been crushed by their crudition still waxes, even though there appears at times to have been a temporary eclipse of such...