Word: program
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clock this evening. The Committee has been active in social service work in and around Boston, and has found opportunities for many University volunteers, but the number of workers from the College will have to be more than doubled in order to carry out the new program of Americanization of the foreign-born...
...will hold a Smoker in the Union, the first social gathering of the Senior Class since the war. H. C. Flower, C. A. Clarke, Jr., F. W. Whitman, A. Stevens and W. W. McLeod will speak, and the usual motion pictures, refreshments and music are on the program. The moving pictures will consist of a Mack Sennet Comedy entitled "The Summer Girl," and "He Comes Up Smiling," featuring Douglas Fairbanks. Sendel's Jazz Band is to render a number of popular selections...
...clock the last concert of the season of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be held in Sanders Theatre. Georges Laurent will render a flute solo by Bach entitled "Polonaise and Badinerie," from the Suite in B minor, No. 2, for flute and strings. The rest of the program consists of Beethoven's Symphony in F major, No. 6, "Pastoral," Op. 68, "La Jeunesse d'Hercule," Symphonic poem No. 4, Op. 50, by Saint-Saens, and Weber's Overture to "Der Freischutz...
...announcement of the University's military program for next year one fact stands preeminent,--that the Field Artillery training, wherewith Harvard is to renew her active support of the maxim "in time of peace prepare for war," is to be no path of least resistance for seekers of easy courses, but an out-and-out business proposition. Coupled with an excellent course in the theory and practice of artillery the University offers a carefully selected field of study upon which men may draw for their necessary units allied to the military work. In permitting the training to replace the usual...
There are undoubtedly a certain number of men who will take exception to the new program on the familiar grounds that it will "ruin Harvard as an academic institution by turning it into a veritable military college." The fallacy of this argument is very clear. In the first place as long as military work remains elective it cannot in any way effect the status of Harvard as an institution of learning. No one need take up the artillery training or other military courses during his undergraduate life in the future, any more than it is now compulsory...