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Dates: during 1900-1909
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We all know with what cordiality and eagerness our own representatives at Berlin University, Professor Peabody and Professor Richards, were received by the Emperor, the professors and the students, and with what intense interest and absorption large numbers of students have attended their lectures throughout the semester. It is most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications | 9/30/1907 | See Source »

Mr. C. M. Stearns, regent of the University, spoke next upon the duties of proctors. Of these there some seventy-five in all scattered throughout the various dormitories, whose duty it is to act neither as policemen nor as spies. The government of students at Harvard is almost entirely in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN RECEPTION | 9/28/1907 | See Source »

Freshmen at Harvard, said R. H. Oveson '05, are received by other undergraduates as in no other university. They are regarded as men among men, and as such it is their duty to respond with manly countesy. Class democracy consists in the freedom given to each member of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN RECEPTION | 9/28/1907 | See Source »

Page after page of the poem deals with undergraduate life from the inside, from the undergraduate's point of view, in terms which will be as intelligible twenty years from today as to the class of 1907. Mr. Bynner has struck out lines which phrase the Harvard College of his...

Author: By L. M. P., | Title: NEW BOOK OF HARVARD LIFE | 6/19/1907 | See Source »

The number is varied and by no means uninteresting, but in general not well written. The Monthly has been accused of rating style too high. No such charge can be maintained against a magazine that uses the words "donate," "novelize," and "enthuse," and (to borrow its own phrase) "cares not...

Author: By L. B. R. briggs., | Title: The June Illustrated Magazine | 6/19/1907 | See Source »

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