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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Physical Colloquium. 1. Exhibition of the Vreeland Oscillator. II. "Note on the Resistance of Condensers," by Professor G. W. Pierce and Mr. H. P. Lawther, Jr., in the Cruft Memorial Laboratory...
...analysis of Walter Camp's All-American teams since 1889 gives Yale the leading place, 80 Yale men having been chosen to date. The University is second with 69, while Princeton and Pennsylvania follow with 51 and 34, respectively. It is interesting to note that up to 1895 only Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Pennsylvania were represented on these teams and that in three of these years Harvard, Yale and Princeton furnished the entire line-up. In 1895 one man from a smaller college was chosen. Since 1899 the big eastern universities have not ruled supreme in the choice of teams...
...foreign service men who are educated and versed in foreign languages are needed as ambassadors, ministers, secretaries, and consuls. In state governments we are passing through an era of constitutional conventions. Various changes are urged as more adapted to our present-day conditions, while in city government we note a determination to concentrate power so as to have fewer abuses and to know whom to blame if any occur, and the strong executive type of charter and the commission form of government are being urged, or are already on trial...
...this point it is easy to lapse into unjustified complacency. The Harvard College man should take note that this national influence is the work mainly of the Graduate Schools; and that it is they and not the College which is national in the domiciles of its members. Only some 400 out of more than 2500 undergraduates come from places west or south of Pennsylvania, while only about 150 live west of the Mississippi. More than half the undergraduate enrollment is from Massachusetts alone...
...following partial list of recent books by Harvard men includes works on a great variety of subjects. A brief descriptive note is appended to each. "The Training for an Effective Life" (Houghton, Mifflin), by President Eliot. Under this title are published five speeches by President Eliot to newcomers at the University between 1904 and 1912, one to a boys' school and one to the Associated Harvard Clubs at St. Louis...