Word: presented
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Committee on Admission has suggested in his report to the President that the regular Harvard entrance examinations in June be abandoned, and that those conducted by the College Entrance Examination Board be substituted. Such a change could not fail to be of great advantage to the University, for the present system is much too restrictive and old-fashioned for modern use. To get into Harvard now, it is necessary to go to a school where the special subjects required are taught, and to decide on this College a long time in advance, in order to take the studies needed...
...Manhattan Grand Opera Company will present Donizetti's "Lucia" at the Boston Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. The season which begins tonight will continue for two weeks, including twelve evening and three matinee performances...
...Board of Overseers, he deals at length with two questions of great importance to the undergraduates. In regard to three-year graduation, the President believes that the regular College term should be reduced to that period. Such a change would raise the standard of labor in College, prevent the present confusion of the fourth year and "bring earlier into their professions the best trained young men." These results would undoubtedly be well worth accomplishing, but the benefit and pleasure to be derived from spending four years in Harvard College are not things, to be lightly dispensed with. In behalf...
...Coburn Players are a company trained in the spirit and technique of the poetic drama, who during the past five summers, have interpreted Shakespearian plays in the open air at different universities of the country. This year they will present Mr. MacKaye's comedy. The idea of the company is to bring the universities and the acted drama, without the spirit of commercialism, into closer sympathy...
...LIBRARY LECTURE. "The History and Development of the English Dictionary." Mr. Percy W. Long, of the Editorial Staff of Webster's Dictionary. Emerson J, 8 P. M. An interesting series of English Dictionaries from the earliest times to the present will be on exhibition in the Treasure Room of the College Library from 2 to 5 P. M., and at the conclusion of the lecture. Continued on the following...