Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...account of the proceedings, of the Mock Democratic Convention held in the New Lecture Hall on May 13 and 14 has been prepared by the officers of the Democratic Club. The eight page pamphlet will be mailed to every Democratic Senator and Representative in Washington. It is made up of stories reprinted from the CRIMSON, including the accounts of the two sessions of the Convention, and Senator Carter-Glass's telegram of appreciation and thanks for his nomination...
...commenting on the pamphlet, President Lowell says, "In America, Harvard University has been among the leaders in the development of chemistry since the middle of the last century, and has thus taken a significant part in advancing this highly important science...
...pamphlet entitled, "Chemistry, Extending its Frontier" has just been issued by the University. The purpose of this pamphlet is to show as far as possible in a compass so brief, the importance of chemistry in its bearing upon modern civilized life, as well as to indicate the manner in which its usefulness may be developed most effectively in the future...
...founded in 1791, without laboratory facilities, but it was not until 1847 that a few of the special students received laboratory instruction from Professor Horsford in the Lawrence Scientific school. Charles W. Eliot was really the first undergraduate to receive any considerable opportunity to study the subject, the pamphlet relates. Because he had incurred the approbation of Professor Josiah Parsons Cooke, he was permitted the use of the Professor's private laboratory, and spent a large part of his time there. After he became President of the University in later years, he maintained an especial interest in the Division...
...have heard that a few people take exception to the pamphlet recently issued by the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard, entitled "The Fine Arts in a Laboratory", which states that the case system is being used in teaching the Fine Arts here in this University. The objectors seem to feel that studying Fine Arts in this way is too mechanical a method and that it follows that we are studying matter instead of mind, technique instead of spirit. We here in the Department do not agree with this criticism and feel that it is based on lack of understanding...