Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Under present conditions, therefore, such recognition is undesirable and for that matter unlikely. But Mr. Garcelon's proposition involves a decided change. His idea is that the Graduate Treasurer in conjunction with the Business School or the Economics Department shall organize a definite "course" in managership, wherein not only the practice but the principles of business dealing, accounting, correspondence, and the other incidents to the heavy managerial work of a Harvard major-sport can be systematically treated. For this the present rough-and-ready duties of the position might very properly be considered laboratory work. Such a course, however, would...
...most important matters of business left over from last year's Council were (a) improvement in administration of oral examinations, (b) more frequent hour examinations looking to the decrease in importance of the two long examinations, (c) a better arrangement of Class Day Week (d) some plan for limiting a man's outside work, similar to the point system in effect at Technology. The Committee discussed these questions at several meetings with the following results: A conference with President Lowell and also with Professor Ford, chairman of the Modern Language Department, brought about the following changes to be made...
...next most important matter is the appointment of the Sub-Committees, and the making three additional regular sub-committees to carry on other branches of the Student Council work. These additional ones are (1) Committee on Reception of Visiting Teams, (2) Committee on Religious Activities, (3) Committee on Freshman Class Affairs. On November 14, the following committee chairmen were appointed with power to pick their own committees, subject to the approval of the President of the Council: Dramatics--J. K. Hodges '14; athletics--S. P. Clark '14; scholarship--P. B. Potter '14; publications--W. C. Brown...
...October 23 it was voted to incorporate the "Register", and at a second meeting about the same matter, the Student Council was incorporated with the Executive Committee as incorporators, in order to put the "Register" as backed by the Council on a firmer basis. A committee was appointed of H. A. Murray '15, chairman, and W. Blanchard '16, to supervise the publication of the "Register" as a Student Council organization. This committee has worked hard to get rid of the debt owed on last year's edition, and at present has several schemes in progress for disposing of the "trade...
...Illustrated is quite right in refusing to regard itself as a vehicle for literary graces, but profiting by Mr. Coggeshall's admirable contribution on Oxford, it should realize how infiantely more readable is an article treated with distinction than one slovenly written, however interesting in subject matter...