Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasure Room in the Memorial Library has once more been reopened to those interested in rarities historical and literary. Among the many valuable documents on display, there may be found the Charter granted to Harvard College by the General Court of the Colony and signed by Governor Thomas Dudley on May 30, 1650. The only remaining volume from the library of John Harvard, together with three Bibles of Henry Dunster's, first President of the College, one of which contains the records of the Dunster family, completes this interesting collection of Harvardiana...
...Madame de Stael, George Sand, Victor Hugo, Goethe, Rousseau, Voltaire, Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Marie Antoinette to Necker, and, finally, a document signed by Marie de Medici compose one of the finest collections of signatures in the country. In addition to these the seeker for historical backgrounds may find a book belonging at one time to Madame de Pompadour containing statistics concerning the French army, as well as books characteristically bound and bearing the arms of Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte, taken from the collection of Charles Sumner...
...these students that the institutional training furnished by our colleges may be particularly harmful. I would appeal to them, and direct my appeal to their parents, for it is generally as a result of parental influence that they find themselves in college. In practically every case of serious maladjustment which I have discovered among college students, I have come ultimately to the statement, 'I didn't really want to come to college; I just did it to please the family.' It develops that the student has been persuaded into college by his parents and his contemporaries (who have in turn...
...system of bounds that is enforced at Oxford and Cambridge, the rule that compels every undergraduate to be within his college precincts by midnight, that allows him only one week-end leave each term, is repugnant to our independence. But if the accidents and casualties continue to increase we may have to accept it. Both of the prohibitions cited in the first paragraph were occasioned by specific disasters. We cannot afford to grant intellectual privileges to machines that hurt. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
...commanded a landing party of bluejackets and marines that was landed in San Domingo to safeguard American and foreign interests during a revolution. He saw service in the Gulf of Mexico in 1904 and commanded the Destroyer Tucker, which was in the second group to reach Queenstown, Ireland, in May, 1917, and operated from Queenstown and later on escort duty in the North Atlantic. In June, 1929, after two years spent in Central American waters, he was detached from command of the U. S. S. Cleveland and assigned to duty at Harvard. He has had two tours of duty...