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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...strengthened capacity to handle ideas, lies perhaps the most striking witness they offer to Mr. Santayana's power. That he has never desired obsequious allegiance is plain from the independence of his pupils' views. Regret grows that Harvard could not keep a professor so peculiarly fitted to inspire a select body of students to superior intellectual life...
Every writer will select his own subject, and will treat it in his own way. No paper offered by a candidate for the degree of A.B. or of S.B. should require more than ten minutes, and no paper offered by a candidate for a higher degree should require more than fifteen minutes for delivery...
...Barrett Wendell, Jr., '02, will give an informal smoker for the University baseball squad at his home, 136 Beacon street, Boston, this evening at 8.15 o'clock. All candidates for the team whom Coach Sexton and Captain Wingate '14 select are invited...
...large number of excellent pieces of work are submitted in competition for it. With an intercollegiate contest, the best of these contributions might be submitted to a board of judges who would also receive the most commendable essays submitted in the contest at Yale. Then this body might select the winning work and give the prize to its author. The establishment of any such plan would surely increase to a large degree the interest and activity of the students of both institutions in literary and scholarly work, for the spirit of intercollegiate competition would be a powerful stimulant to intellectual...
Competitors are at liberty to select the subjects of their essays; but subjects must be approved in advance by the Committee on Bowdoin Prizes. Essays already presented for other prizes, or for academic recognition elsewhere than in Harvard University, are not admissible...