Word: shorts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...introducing the speaker Professor Wendell '77 gave a short outline of M. d'Avenel's career as an economist, concluding with the statement that he is the first lecturer to set forth the great economic changes which affect France today...
...literatures, and Professor of Belles Lettres, in the University from 1836 to 1854. Sanders Theatre was crowded to the utmost so that many were forced to stand, and many others could not gain admittance. Professor C. E. Norton '46, chairman of the assembly, opened the meeting by a short address, which is printed in full below. The other speakers of the evening were President Eliot '53 and Colonel T. W. Higginson '41. A poem, which is also printed below, by T. B. Aldrich h.'96 was read by Mr. Copeland, owing to the illness of Mr. Aldrich. The principal address...
...President next visited the Alpha Delta Phi Club, where he was entertained for a short time, soon leaving to attend a tea at Bishop Lawrence's residence 122 Commonwealth avenue. The President then returned to Dr. Bigelow's where he stopped Friday night, and remained until it was time to attend dinner at the Porcellian Club...
...best of all is the development of the type of character for the lack of which, in an individual, as in a nation, no amount of brilliancy of mind or strength of body will atone. Harvard must do more than produce students: yet, after all, she will fall immeasurably short of her duty and her opportunity unless she produces a great number of true students, of true scholars...
...better them, by railing at the men who do the actual work of political life, instead of trying himself to do the work, is a poor creature, and, so far as his feeble powers avail, is a damage and not a help to the community. You may come far short of this disagreeable standard and still be a rather useless member of society. Your education, your cultivation, will not help you if you make the mistake of thinking that is a substitute for instead of an addition to those qualities which in the struggle of life bring success...