Word: readings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Shuttleworth, Hurd, Morse Canfield, Rich, c. c., Jackson Coburn, Fallon, r.g. l.g., Ackerman, Spicer Cummings, Richards, r.t. l.t., J. Robertson Coolidge, Phinney, r.e. l.e., Larkin, Greene Fuller, Felton, q.b. q.b., Kelley, Sullivan Casey, Batchelder, l.h.b. r.h.b., Shaw, Cody Flower, Platt, r.h.b. l.h.b., H. Robertson, Shaw Bond, f.b. f.b., Read...
...Such writing lingers in the memory, though it be only the memory of a few. But for one American who has read Dana's 'Speeches in Stirring Times' there are thousands throughout the English-speaking world who have shared with the boyish Dana his pleasure in the 'perfect silence of the sea' and 'the early breaking of day on the wide ocean,' his awe at 'the cold and angry skies' and 'long heavy ugly seas' off the Cape, who have seen with him the 'malignant' brightness of the lightning in the tropical storm, the yellow California sunshine and the gray...
...some of the dangers which may be avoided and the mistakes which are only too often due to ignorance, several graduates of the University have prepared a pamphlet, which is being mailed to all Freshmen today, containing among other articles extracts from Dean Briggs' "Routine and Ideals." To read this article is like having an interview with Dean Briggs himself. His sympathetic knowledge of a student's problems gained from a genuine warm-hearted interest in his welfare gains at once the confidence of the reader and imparts a special significance to his words. Parents as well as students will...
What are the Orals for? I asked. A certain gentleman informed me; he said: "A college man should be able to read intelligently and enjoyably some other language besides English; he should be able to appreciate the great works in French or German. To a Harvard man specializing in the History, Government, and Economics group knowledge of either French or German is indispensable; and the same is true of men specializing in Literature, Philosophy, or the Sciences. One cannot get far in any one of these subjects without a reading knowledge of one of these two languages...
...Right Reverend William Lawrence, Bishop of Massachusetts will preside. The Honorable Joseph H. Choate '52, late ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James, will read a paper on Dana as a citizen, a lawyer, and a writer on the subject of international law. Professor Bliss Perry will speak of Dana as a man of letters and as the author of "Two Years Before the Mast," and the Honorable Moorfield Storey '66 will talk on what Dana did in connection with the antislavery movement. The meeting has been arranged by a special committee which has secured...