Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...large elementary courses in English, French, and German, history, government, economics, philosophy, and geology. In the language courses a good small-section method has been worked out. In history and government a lecture method is used; but the classes are also divided into sections. In philosophy two parallel courses are given three professors, one assistant professor and one assistant taking part in them. In economics three instructors and two assistants gave Economics 1 to 432 students in the year under review. In the half-course, Geology 4, one professor with two assistants gave instruction to 451 students. It is certain...
...meetings of graduate students which take place in Phillips Brooks House Monday evenings from 6.45 to 7.30 are for frank discussion of personal ideals. They are meant to further acquaintance among members of the Graduate School, and to offer especially for these men a parallel to the general religious meetings of the Harvard Christian Association. Without limitation to sect or creed, they admit perfect freedom of individual views, and are quite without formality...
...Sociedad-Espanola will hold its first meeting of the year in the Assembly Room of the Union tomorrow evening at eight o'clock. This society, parallel in its purposes and nature to the Cercle Francais, was organized in the fall of 1900 to encourage the study of the Spanish language and literature, and its meetings are intended chiefly to give members opportunity for conversational practice. Membership is elective, and is confined to those who have had at least one course in Spanish at the University or an equivalent amount of Spanish elsewhere...
...Gordon took his text from the fifty-fourth verse of St. Luke's, twenty-fourth chapter: "While he blessed them, he was parted from them." From this brief account of the separation of Jesus and his disciples, Dr. Gordon drew a parallel of the parting of Harvard men from the ennobling influence of their College. Jesus' companionship, like his farewell, was a blessing; the Harvard influence too has been a blessing. Jesus was the way and the truth; Harvard, for Christ and the Church, has made her motto "Veritas...
...clock in the Gymnasium by the pupils of Dr. Sargent's winter normal class, for the benefit of the East End Christian Union. The first part of the programme will consist of free exercises, dumb bells, Swedish exercises, and performances with bar bells, bounding balls, and on parallel bars. In the second half after the rocking races and centre ball there will be Delsarte exercises, fencing, Indian clubs, running vaults, esthetic dancing, and basket ball...