Word: maines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These lectures are designed to enable Harvard men to understand the main religious systems and concepts, so that they can intelligently take a position in religion. The lectures are open to members of the University but not to the public. They will be given as follows...
Book Reviews: "The Golden Day," by Lewis Mumford, reviewed by V. W. Brooks: "Eight O'clock Chapel," by C. H. Patton and W. T. Fields, reviewed by J. R. Brackett: "Main Currents of American Thought" by V. L. Parrington, reviewed by Stanley Williams: "A New Englander in Japan: Dauiel Crosby Greene," by E. B. Greene, reviewed by E. A. Christie: "The Rise of American Civilization," by C. A. Beard and Marry R. Beard reviewed by S. E. Morison: "The Harvest of a Quiet Life," by Odell Shepard, reviewed by Lawrence Mayo...
...parents who keep their son out of college a year after he is prepared are often moved by a belief that he would otherwise be at a social and athletic disadvantage, and this is so far true that if such things were the main object of college the motive would be serious. A student younger than his classmates is usually somewhat less prominent in these matters; but by no means always. Some years ago a father sought advice about sending his son, to Harvard College at 17. He was advised to do so, but warned of the social disadvantage. Wisely...
...Over the main line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Buffalo is 447 miles from Manhattan. Intervening is a country marvelously rich in farm, mine and factory products. They furnish a revenue of approximately $75,000,000 a year to the railroad. Of that sum about $8,000,000 is net profit. Control of so profitable a road is worth fighting for. And men, sitting in Philadelphia for the corporation's annual meeting of stockholders last week, did fight...
...junior and senior years, should lead to a Master's degree." Thus Professor Mather of Princeton in an article in The Educational Review states his proposition for a more efficient recasting of a university education. "The curriculum of the junior college is prescribed, comprising surveys of all the main branches of knowledge, and affording that minimum of information which may reasonably be expected of a liberally educated man. The methods of instruction are that of disciplinary character to which the student personnel is accustomed in the preparatory schools and which are appropriate to his actual capacity and aims . . ." Membership...