Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Plans for the 1917-18 fencing season are rapidly being completed by E. R. Gay '19, acting captain of the team. At present a series of meets with Y. M. C. A. representatives from neighboring cities is under consideration, and it is probable that the foilsmen will meet the Springfield and Haverhill associations within a short time...
...months' time. Although the task may be hard the prizes are great. I hope also that the Russian government will send students to this country to study in our universities and technical schools. The Russian universities are desirous of having America help them make their work more practical. Their present courses of study run too much to abstruse theory. They need to introduce the laboratory methods which are now so common in America. I was asked to give this message to the educational institutions of America...
...entire proceeds of both performances will be devoted to a fund for the benefit of the sufferers in the recent Halifax disaster. It was at first planned to give only one performance, but the tickets sold so quickly that the management decided to give two of them. At present, all the tickets for the evening performance have been sold, but several matinee tickets are still on sale at the Co-operative Branch Store, at Amee Brothers and at Herrick's in Boston...
Auguste Rodin's beautiful maxim, "Lenteur est beaute," manifestly is not a favorite with our present-day American universities. Just now the watchword with them is "Speed up the courses." To cite an example, in his annual report to the trustees of Boston University, Dr. Murlin, the president of that institution, advocates a general acceleration of the courses--and not only that; but an all-the-year-round session. Under Dr. Murlin's plan, which is devised for the benefit of busy young people who have something else in the world to do besides study, the instruction at a university...
...third of the University Teas will be held in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House this afternoon from 4 until 6 o'clock. All members of the University are cordially invited to attend, and those belonging to the first battalion are especially invited to be present...