Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over this period he will speak on the general subjects of, The Restoration and the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848; The Unification of Germany and Italy; Modern England and the British Empire...
Since the major part of one's scholastic work during three-fourths of the college period depends upon the choice of concentration, it is easily seen that there is more involved than a mere selection of courses and arrangement of schedules. Men who are pre-eminent in their specialties are, naturally, the men who can best discuss the problems which face those in search of a field. And it is to these men and to one's personal inclinations that the average Freshman will look for guidance. No bills are being peddled, no fields exploited; the chief objective of these...
...plan which was followed at the University last year was that each competitor wrote for not more than two hours on one or two topics which were chosen by himself from a list of ten or 12 suggested by the events of the period beginning May 1, 1926, which were indicated on the examination. A similar plan presumably will be followed this year. The method of presentation as well as a knowledge of facts will be considered in determining the winner...
...years than under the insurance plan, where much money is bound to be dissipated in lapsed policies and in profit for the insurance company. At the same time the chief idea of the insurance plan is gained; that is, the spreading of the burden over the full period of years. Last and most important, the committee believes very strongly in the principle of purly voluntary giving, finding something repugnant in the idea of calling in outsiders to force Harvard men to make gifts to Harvard University...
...term "Christian Art" was first used by Alexis Rio in the nineteenth century to denote all art manifestations in Christendom from early times to our own; the term "Early Christian Art" is reserved for art in the western Christian countries down to the Carolingian period, after which the Romanesque wave swept over Europe. In his study of early Christian architecture, therefore, Professor Conant will take the vagabond who chooses Robinson Hall to Rome and Ravenna, where the chief monuments of the period survive...