Word: severance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simultaneous close Harvard's 297th year and his own regime of nearly a quarter century, President Lowell this morning conferred 2148 degrees on graduates of all departments of the University. The graduating students and their guests, together with a gathering of visiting notables, alumni, undergraduates, and faculty members, filled Sever Quadrangle to overflowing for the Commencement exercises...
...clock--Commencement exercises in the Sever Quadrangle...
...clock--Annual exercises of the Harvard Alumni Association in the Sever Quadrangle...
...snares and delusions of American utilitarian education--political, religious, and social, as well as academic, one should browse in the books of Professor Babbitt. Almost to a phrase the attacks on utilitarianism, immediacy, cheapness, indolence, and shying from moral and mental effort, emanate, seemingly, from the twilight of Sever 11. In American education, to quote from the humanistic code, there is an "elementary confusion of standards," and the blame lies on the self-styled and meddling educational 'experts.'" In the interests of palatability American children are being fed knowledge by countless "plans," by our Teachers' Colleges, and are doing...
...Summer Session under the direction of N. H. Black '06 will open for the fifty-sixth time on Thursday, July 5. Registration in Sever Hall will continue on Friday and Saturday. On application the Summer School will send to any person who is planning to attend a ticket which will enable them to purchase the reduced fare ticket...