Word: presents
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...custom was started of observing at the regular Appleton Chapel services on November 29 the anniversary of the birth of John Harvard. Evidently the usage did not long continue, for such a service has not been held within the memory of the present College generation. The tercentenary celebration two years ago brought the life and services of the great benefactor before the public as well as the University in most complete fashion, but that too will soon have passed beyond any but occasional recollection...
...most men was centred on the material things of life he saw the coming need of educated men who should be ready to replace the then leaders of the people, and for the satisfaction of that need he gave his money and his books--small gifts according to our present standards but large in a generation when both were scarce...
...present number of the Illustrated is timely in the journalistic sense in that it is almost exclusively devoted to football. The leading article, however, is by ex-Governor Guild, "Should Men Join Political Parties?" Governor Guild argues that every man should be an active politician and that it is only by means of party that practical results can be obtained. In so far as the arguments concern the active politician they are valid, but Mr. Guild has not noticed or does not mention that the old-fashioned party man has passed away and that the average man now votes with...
...usual deduction in favor of the new game. Mr. Sammons argues for a Freshman Dormitory with a new library, gymnasium, and chemical laboratory, thrown in. Mr. Paul Mariett contributes some lines on "Crew-Practice." Mr. Mariett possesses a command of language which is unique for a young man; at present, however, he is in the imitative stage; now he merges himself in Whitman, now in Walter Pater. His present business is to discover himself, the discovery will bring something well worth while...
...former years, the management of the teas is in the hands of a permanent executive committee made up of certain members of the Faculty and their wives, and ten or twelve of this committee will be present on each Friday. In addition, a few 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. Lowell will attend as often as possible...