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...announcement just made that Oxford will grant the degree of Doctor of Philosophy shows that the plans for broader education in the old world universities are still being strengthened. Formerly Oxford has granted the degree of B.Litt. for graduate work in the arts. The Ph.D. degree granted in American universities is a tribute to the German educational plan, although there is little similarity between the two systems of education...
Everett Tryon King, a Junior in Harvard College, and the younger son of Professor Edward S. King, passed away this afternoon, February 22, after an illness of two weeks of pleuro-pneumonia. Although only 21 years old, he displayed an extraordinary brilliancy and versatility of mind. He took part in the work of the Harvard Observatory and showed that the ancient instrument, the abacus, could be used to advantage in calculations there. One of his latest enterprises was the study of color in the department of fine arts, a work so highly appreciated that he received an appropriation from...
...Wednesday evening, February 28, Professor Copeland will read, with an occasional brief comment, from the Old and the New Testaments, and the Apocrypha in the King James version of the Bible. The reading will be given in the dining room of the Union, and the doors will be closed promptly at 9.05 o'clock...
...old text book idea of this country's isolation in world affairs has been conclusively disproved by recent events," said Professor Robert Matteson Johnston, in his talk to the Freshman Debating Society in Smith Halls Common Room last night. "We must recast our whole ideas of European relations. The first thing to be done is, of course, to get an army; and few realize that this takes time. It would be six years before a first class force of troops could be created to compete with any of the Powers...
...right in doing so. This is a measure demanded both by the honor and the safety of the United States. It is the first duty of every American to sustain the President in his action. If war should come it will be the duty of every man, young or old--a duty in which I know the men of Harvard will not fail--to do everything in his power to serve the country and to secure a victory in a contest which involves freedom and democracy and in which our own security would be at stake. If war should come...