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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Seminary in Education, under the direction of Professor Hanus, is sending out a circular, with a set of questions appended to all who have graduated from the University since 1886, when the general elective system was adopted. This is in extension of the investigation of the elective system in colleges and secondary schools which was begun some weeks ago. It has been thought that the undergraduates, to whom the former circular was sent, might be somewhat biased by a mistaken sense of loyalty to a system to which the college is thoroughly committed, and that their replies might therefore...
Brooks House has been presented a complete set of the works of Phillips Brooks, published by E.P. Dutton & Company. The set is an edition de luxe, bound in calf, and numbers twelve volumes. Each volume has stamped in gold on one side "Harvard University" and on the other "Phillips Brooks House." The frontispiece of the first volume is an excellent steel engraving of the author. Rev. John Cotton Brooks is the editor of the edition...
...fourth cross country run has been changed from Friday to today. The run will start as usual promptly at 4 o'clock from the Gymnasium. The course will be four miles long and there will be a half mile break at the finish. The six leaders will set the pace for the break and all the other runners are requested to remain behind them...
Yale defeated Carlisle at New Haven on Saturday by the decisive score of 35 to 0. A change of policy in regard to the backfield will in all probability result from Yale's experience in the game. It was shown clearly that a set of light fast backs were much more efficient than the heavy men previously used. The creditable work of Dupee and Fincke, which may ensure positions on the team, to both, contrasted most favorably with the previous work of the Yale back field. Yale's play was fast and varied and on the defensive they sized...
...fourth number of the Advocate continues the good record set by the earlier issues. All the stories are readable, and in one or two instances, more than usually interesting. Instead of a superabundance of rather ordinary verse, such as has marred the recent numbers, there are but two selections, both good in their...