Word: maine
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lecture, and the value of the lecture lies more in comment and explanation than in a repetition of exposition found in the reading. If, however, the two section meetings were used, not only to test the men on the reading, but to discuss it, to point out the main lines of thought, and to teach the men how to "tear the heart out of a book," we believe that they would prove much more profitable than the same amount of time devoted to lectures...
...general complaints that students not engaged in professional work have far too little desire for sound scholarship, and slender respect for those who work hard; while athletic triumphs are regarded as of vast importance. Now, it is a very significant fact that this condition is not due in the main to a sincere belief that prowess in sports is intrinsically of greater value than intellectual achievement. Almost every undergraduate would be proud to be told that he was destined in after life to write a remarkable history, or to make a notable scientific discovery and would be shocked to hear...
...Resolved, That the United States should adopt a system of ship subsidies, other than our present mail subsidies, for the encouragement of our merchant marine." Yale has chosen to support the affirmative, and Harvard will argue the negative. The Freshman team will debate in the following order in the main speeches: S. M. Seymour, A. A. Berle, Jr., R. B. Gill. In the rebuttal, the order will be Berle, Seymour, and Gill...
...tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Tickets at $1.50, $1, 75 and 50 cents are on sale in Boston at Herrick's, the Schoenhof Book Company, 128 Tremont street, Ritter & Flebbe's, 149 Tremont street; in Roxbury, at Tony Krebs's, 124 Dudley street; and in Cambridge, at the main store of the Co-operative Society. The final performance will be given in Brattle Hall, next Friday, at 8 o'clock...
...Cambridge, on Friday, April 29; both performances will begin at 8 o'clock. The tickets, at $1.50, $1.75 and 50 cents, may be procured at Herrick's, Schoenhof Book Company, 128 Tremont street, and Ritter & Flebbe, 149 Tremont street, Boston; of Tony Knebs, 124 Dudley street, Roxbury; at the main store of the Co-operative Society, and of J. R. Sibley '12, Matthews...