Word: presented
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Faculty has decided to make certain alterations in the regulations relating to admission examinations. Under the present system, the requirements in elementary Latin consist of an alternative examination in the first four books of Virgil's Eneid or selected myths from Ovid's Metamorphoses. To this is to be added the further option of substituting "selected speeches of Cicero." This last is defined in a note as follows: "The speeches of Cicero referred to in the definition of elementary Latin are the speeches on the Manilian Law, Catiline, Archias, and Marcellus...
...other hand, conspicuously failed. Turning to the morally pestilential life of a certain watering place, here called Nouvean Isle, he recounts with zest an incident which, though improbable, might have been made amusing. He is, however, so lacking in narrative skill that at the critical moment he does not present his leaf-clad personages vividly. Occasionally,--for example, when dwelling upon the physical peculiarities of middle age,--he comes perilously near coarseness. What is even worse, he seems to take a sophomoric delight in degenerate aspects of social life, and to look with smiling tolerance upon vices which a conscientious...
...glorious finish last night when the undergraduate part of the program was carried out. President Eliot's address, the torch-light procession to the Stadium, the bonfire on Soldiers Field, and the return to the Yard were the features of the celebration. Unique in the history of the present College generation, it will be remembered by all who saw it, whether as participants or spectators, as one of the most beautiful sights that Harvard has ever witnessed, surpassing in some respects the illumination of a Class Day night...
...whom they do not meet in the class room. As in former years, the management of the teas will be in the hands of a permanent executive committee made up of certain members of the Faculty and their wives, and ten or twelve members of this committee will be present on each Friday afternoon. In addition, a number of men from the undergraduate classes and the Graduate Schools have been asked to serve as ushers, and a number of them will be present each time. President and Mrs. Eliot will be present as often as possible...
...regular meeting of the St. Paul's Society which will be held this evening at 7.15 o'clock in the Noble Room of Phillips Brooks House. Rev. Eustis' address will be preceded by evening prayer at 7 o'clock. All members of the University are invited to be present...