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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regards subjects, the meetings are not restricted, although religious topics probably dominate. They have ranged thus far from the inheritance tax to the relation of Christianity to the present war. The sessions are brief, seldom lasting more than an hour; and those who have already attended them testify with enthusiasm that they are worth while...
...need to be reminded at this season of the year that a course is not irrevocably chosen because it has been written down upon the colored card. It is seldom that an intelligent selection of courses can be made from reading the elective pamphlet alone. Particularly are snap judgments inadvisable,--a selection made on the assurance of a classmate that the course is "easy," a sudden whim, or even at times the advice of a Faculty adviser. Trial visits, careful consideration of both subject-matter and instructor are necessary. In spite of the annoying but necessary "red tape" involved...
...Trojan Women," with a eulogy on Mr. Barker's work. The report of the Stadium production is interesting. A reader of the Advocate, however, must wish that Mr. Meeker would continue to write short stories like the one about the southern counterfeiter and the female crook in New York. Seldom does the Advocate print things so excellent as was that...
There is an abundance of good advice available at Harvard for all who seek it. But it is comparatively seldom that an opportunity is offered to receive counsel from a man who is not a professional instructor, from a man who is himself practicing the trade about which he speaks. The Law School of Phillips Brooks House offers such an opportunity this evening. Mr. Hill is both a practicing lawyer of wide reputation, and a man whose active political work has given the broadest public viewpoint...
Dean Hurlbut, in his intimate talks with undergraduate visitors, seldom fails to remind them that attending college is as much a business as selling wool or building bridges, and that students must be businesslike in keeping their college appointments. That he needs to emphasize the value of such a homely, old-fashioned virtue as punctuality is daily demonstrated...