Word: presented
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Department of State has appealed to the University to encourage graduates to enter the consular service of the government, and to lay before them the advantages and inducements of the foreign service. The introduction of the merit system by the present Administration has greatly increased the chances for promotion of one who enters one of the minor departments of the services. An evidence of this change in policy is the announcement that the vacancy which will be caused by the resignation of Mr. Charlemagne Tower '72 as Ambassador to Germany will be filled by promotion...
...than small attendance is the lack of intelligent discussion. Very often the men who speak at class meetings have as their only qualification their vocal training, while those who have opinions of real value are content to express them merely by their votes. We do not believe that the present classes are too large or unwieldy to act as powerful units in the life of the University; but a class, in order to be efficient, must be strong in individuals, who are willing to show their interest and express their sentiments freely...
...assertion that "now, here in America, those who make this nation what it is, the greatest of world powers, turn their energies to commerce." This would exclude men like Roosevelt and several others, to whom posterity will doubtless grant at least a modest share in the making of present day America. The fundamental fallacy of the captain's reasoning is the assumption that the life of action is necessarily dissociated from the life of contemplation, and vice versa. R. Altrocchi's "Western Fable" is impressive. "Old Doc. Barber" has a dramatic way of telling his story and his simple...
...Harvard teachers have of interpolating their lectures "with examples of that variety of facetiousness, which is, to say the least, in questionable taste." Public criticism of teachers on the part of Harvard students has generally been marked by fairness and sincerity. This is eminently true in the present case. The reviewer's own experience as a student at Harvard makes him believe that there is foundation for the censure; but the writer would have strengthened his case and improved his editorial, had he avoided such phrases as "rickety and epileptical morality," "cataclastic convulsion," "temporary tetanus of the entire intellectual functions...
Every member of the class should be present at this meeting so that the committee elected may be representative of the whole class. On account of the mass meeting at 7.30 o'clock, every one is urged to come early...