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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Eliot was the first speaker. He said in part: It is very hard for the new student to decide upon his course of life amid the many diverse influences of the inexhaustible Harvard environment Here he finds every possible opinion on every possible subject vigorously represented. He finds a powerful individualistic tendency, but he finds also the social tendency. He has the responsibility of developing his own character, and he has also social duties to his class and literary interests of the College. He sees some men in College who try to be popular and influential, some who lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WELCOME TO FRESHMEN. | 10/7/1902 | See Source »

Professor Peabody, the next speaker, said: It is some months before the new student becomes conscious of the great simple religious movement sweeping through our midst. It is difficult to observe our religion on the surface, because we are quiet; perhaps we are too reserved. Our religion is that of character rather than creed. Chapel services here have long ceased to be a thing of compulsion, they are a privilege. Those of us who desire, meet simply in Appleton Chapel for fifteen minutes every morning, to ask a word of consecration on the day's work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WELCOME TO FRESHMEN. | 10/7/1902 | See Source »

Professor Royce, the first speaker, made the subject of his remarks certain problems that confront those who are actively engaged in the advancement of special research and graduate work in America. An English observer feared that we pay too little attention to developing the undergraduate in our endeavor to secure success in special research. These ideas in regard to graduate work suggest to us in America a warning. We must be careful not to lose sight of our ideals, nor of our general culture in the all-absorbing work of our special research. And yet there is no reason...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate School Reception. | 10/3/1902 | See Source »

...second speaker was Dean Briggs, who emphasized the fact that knowledge must be pursued not as a means but as an end. He furthermore expressed the hope that many men would deliberately enter the great field of secondary education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate School Reception. | 10/3/1902 | See Source »

Professor Shaler, the chairman of the conference and the first speaker, told of his experiences in Alaska, in the region of the Fjords. After spending some weeks of careful geological study in that country, Professor Shaler returned to the forest region of the northwestern portion of the United States and made investigations concerning the history of the forest movement after the glacial period. This work was really one of compilation, as Professor Shaler has been studying this region for about forty years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Geological Surveys. | 10/1/1902 | See Source »

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