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...Freshman oarsmen were put through a time trial this afternoon with the second eight as a pace maker. The time, however, was not very fast as a result of the morning race...
...result of the high cost of rail transportation, coupled with advanced parlor and observation car rates, the Harvard Club of Boston has decided not to run the usual special train to New London for the boat race with Yale. The decision to cancel the train was reached by the transportation committee of the club because the demand for accommodations was unusually light this spring. This is the first time in many years that the Harvard club will not have special transportation facilities. The Harvard Club train is not to be confused with the official train which is being run under...
Nominations for overseers to fill the five vacancies existing on the board of the University for next year have narrowed down to ten names as a result of the postal card ballot taken by the alumni. The list as it now stands will be voted on in Massachusetts Hall, Commencement Day, June 19, between half past nine and four o'clock. Graduates of the year 1914 and earlier classes only will be eligible to cast a ballot, no graduate of less than five years standing being allowed to take part in the election...
...University has seen that ideas are not the result of any special curriculum, but of a system which encourages the student to think. Two factors are preeminent to the success of such a system. First, many instructors who stimulate thought; second, an opportunity for instructors to meet the undergraduates for discussion and an emphasis on a general grasp of the subject rather than a knowledge of details. The second factor the University has already grasped and acted upon; it remains to develop the first. This will take time. In the meanwhile it is deeply satisfactory to know that Harvard...
...building stands on the so-called Palfrey Estate, on Oxford street, Cambridge, just north of Conant Hall. It is expected that the equipment will be fully installed before the beginning, next September, of the first full academic year of the Engineering School; which was opened last autumn as a result of the decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Court that the funds of the Gordon McKay bequest could not be used jointly by Harvard and the Institute of Technology...