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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...charge of requiring more writing than reading from students. Certainly there are cases where the total amount of written work required in the courses taken by one student is so great that the time left for reading, leaving out of consideration the quality of the theses produced, is small. Especially does the ambitious student, the student who desires to do well what he does, feel the hardship. He is likely to wonder why it is so much more important for him to write hasty articles for professors to read, than himself to read the books which professors have written. With...
...University Press announces the publication of three books, which will be placed on sale shortly. The first of these is a small volume on "Shakspere," by Professor George Lyman Kittredge '82, of the English Department. It consists chiefly of the address delivered in Sanders Theatre at the opening of the Shakspere Tercentenary celebration. "Personality in German Literature" is the title of a book by Professor Kuno Francke, of the German Department. Professor William Ernest Castle '93, of the Zoology Department, contributes a volume on "Genetics and Eugenics." Professor Kittredge's book will be placed on sale next Monday...
...number of teachers above stated increased from one professor in 1867, who gave but a small part of his time to the subject, to seven teachers of professorial rank and five instructors, giving all their time to Economics and requiring the services of ten assistants, during the present college year. The number of courses stated in the table is given in terms of full courses. In 1887 six of the nine were undergraduate courses, and three were designed primarily for graduates. In 1916 the seventeen and one-half courses offered are practically evenly divided between the graduate and under- graduate...
...such a trip. Such a remark, coming from the President, and spoken to what might be called the family circle of Harvard men, where flattery is out of place, bears all the indications of being from the heart of the speaker. We Harvard men should feel proud to no small degree that such an opinion is held of us by our President...
...granting independence to the Philippines. Moreover, this is not advantageous to us for their release from their standpoint, as they would have to face serious international difficulties if released now or within five years. The economic resources of the Philippine Islands are as yet largely undeveloped. Their revenues are small and for this reason would have difficulty in maintaining their independence if granted