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...Mabilleau began by showing how from the very beginning religion was the first tie of French nationality. Under the old regime Church and State were one, but the great effect of the Revolution was to establish an equilibrium between two distinct social forces. The tendency of the past century has been towards a more complete separation of these powers and the consequent lessening of the influence of religion on politics...
...University basketball team will play Princeton at Princeton this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. The Princeton team since its defeat by Harvard in the Gymnasium three weeks ago has improved greatly and will have the added advantage of playing on its own floor. In the past two years Princeton has been beaten but once on her own floor. The Harvard team has improved slightly since the defeat by Columbia. Inaccuracy in passing seems to be the chief fault of the team, and a tendency to lose sight of the ball seems also apparent. Owing to the hard practicing at shooting...
...University basketball team will leave Boston at half past five this afternoon, and will play Princeton at Princeton tomorrow at three o'clock. The team will then return to New York, and play Columbia in the Columbia Gymnasium Friday night, returning after the game to Cambridge...
...college course, but he makes it clear that the quantity of work as measured by the required number of courses, is the same for the three years' course as for the four years' course, while the quality of work as measured by grades has been substantially raised during the past year. In short, President Eliot maintains that Harvard is unshaken in its adherence to the highest standards for both undergraduate and professional departments and shows that this policy strengthens a university numerically, in the long run, in both its higher and its lower members, while assuring to itself a uniform...
...have made it possible for diligent stu- dents to attain the degree in three years, or three years and a half. This insistence on the sum of attainments for the degree is the characteristic feature of the whole evolution. Since the general effect of the elective system during the past thirty years has been greatly to raise the quality of the instruction throughout all the courses and half-courses offered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it is obvious that the candidate who shall hereafter obtain the Harvard degree in three years will have to give, on the average...