Word: likes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Lowell continued the discussion of cosmopolitanism. It is now several hundred years since it has ceased to exist. Perhaps what is best for the destiny of the modern world must be worked out by nationalities. No one has done more to bring this about than men like Professor Muensterberg. "The most broadening this in life is travelling, the next best is to have a flower from foreign lands come...
...thank you for the greeting. You do not know what a change this is for me; giving up the pleasant life that I have thoroughly enjoyed. Nothing is more stimulating than to lecture before a class of young men like this. I am going to leave this pleasant work and take up the most difficult task in the United States. The American college is being attacked on all sides and for all sorts of reasons. Many educators say that the college and the other departments of the university should be distinct and separate. I do not sympathize with those ideas...
...opportunities to testify to this love. I hope you don't think the change in administration means that the ideals of the University will change. Its ideals will remain the same and I hope your love will also remain. It is a great thing to work for a University like this because of the knowledge of the increasing power and durability it has throughout the world. Whoever lays a brick in its walls builds to last, and I hope every one of you will build a little in the walls of Harvard. Today the living force of Harvard...
...University second baseball team will play Holy Cross second on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Holy Cross has a fast second team with a good string of pitchers and a high batting average. Like the University second team they have been defeated by Cushing Academy in the only game they have lost this season. The University second team will line up as in the Tufts game on Saturday with the exception that Everts will pitch...
...College in 1869, says Professor Kuehnemann (who evidently has only the formal instruction in view), was like a German gymnasium, surrounded by a group of professional schools with low standards of admission and "merely practical aims." The work of President Eliot, he continues, has consisted in turning these schools into places for graduate and theoretical study; in leading the College from "the easy-going pursuit of prescribed courses" and "the drill system" to "a thoroughly scholarly training, befitting the dignity and importance of the learned professions"; and finally, in inducing the preparatory schools to raise their standards, diversify their teaching...