Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plan to organize "discussion groups" among students, which Harvard authorities will present at a mass meeting next Friday night, is worth every support. Obviously it is one of those schemes that contain the germ of an important success if only it can be incubated at sufficient heat, vitalized by the magnetism of the right personalities, and fostered by a careful regard for the exact means that will strengthen its life. Quite as obviously it is means of such novel kind that are now in much need in our colleges...
According to the present plans of the track management, the University R. O. T. C. will enter a team of 10 men in the annual B. A. A. marathon on April 19. The race is a 25-mile one, each man to run two and a half miles. If the regiment is represented in the marathon, it will be the first time that the University has competed in this race...
...ministry. Each one of the professions in turn has become a field for college-trained men, and in every field so opened the college man has gained pre-eminence or monopoly. But among business men--men engaged in manufacture, transportation, commerce, mining and agriculture--college training down to the present has been the exception rather than the rule. In spite of the increasing volume of graduates who have made business their vocation, leadership in business has not yet definitely passed to the educated...
...present and future, however, there is a greater and more urgent need in industry for men with a sound general education. It cannot be denied that the further advance of the world of art and science is being hampered by the growing deficiency in the supply of our more elementary needs. The shortage of food, fuel, and transportation which came to a head this winter has been developing for years. Upon an 1880 system of agriculture and a 1900 system of transportation we have been trying to found a 1918 civilization. Even the growth of our manufacturing system...
Although Worcester is said to have an unusually strong aggregation, the Freshman bid fair to give them a close contest and if present indications hold true stand an excellent chance to win the meet...