Word: presented
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University will be represented at the various conferences by Professors T. N. Carver, A. C. Coolidge '87, C. H. Haskins, W. B. Munro '99, and J. Royce, and by Messrs. A. I. Andrews and R. B. Merriman '96. A large number of Harvard graduates, at present connected with other universities, will also figure at the conferences...
...often, one cannot wait for them to "just grow" like Topsy; they must be manufactured. If there is little to suggest them, they must be forced. If there is dearth of local picturesqueness, they must go afield to life in general. Moreover, it is only fair to the present number to admit that there are some good touches among the wealth of the commonplace. "Phrases from Novels" (p. 200), the dernier cri of the Freshman's welcome home (p. 206), the limerick about the Freshman's quandary at Boston dances (p. 208), the bit about Harvard irreligion (p. 209), make...
...Stefansson accompanied the Anglo-American polar expedition which started for the Arctic regions in the spring of 1906, as ethnologist, and collected archaeological and ethnological material for the Peabody Museum. At present he is writing an article on the "Anglo-American Polar Expedition" for Harper's Magazine...
President Eliot will address a meeting of the Harvard Menorah Society in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, this evening at 8 o'clock. Representatives of Brown University, Dartmouth, Technology, Tufts, Boston University and Radcliffe will be present. The purpose of the meeting is to urge the formation of similar societies in other colleges, and members of the University interested in the objects of the society, the study and promotion of Hebraic culture and ideals, are cordially invited. After the meeting there will be an informal reception...
Plays every year or every few years will meet with a warm reception in Cambridge, but they will not have as much effect as more frequent exhibitions of talent, even if it is amateurish. At present the inspiration to future play-wrights comes from club theatricals and Boston performances. Would it not be possible to develop, with the assistance of the English Department, a series of plays which would open opportunities to talent representing the entire University? As a centre for this activity we should suggest the Union. Monthly plays would be of value to the embryo writers and actors...