Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...annual banquet of the Canadian Club of New York at the Hotel Astor on November 12, there will be a special table for "Harvard Canadians" who wish to attend. A large number of prominent statesmen, railroad and banking executives, and other well-known men of the United States and Canada will be present. Among the speakers will be Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture and a Canadian Cabinet Minister For further particulars and application for tickets address E. Medley Scovil, vice-president, Canadian Club, 44 Broad street, New York...
...toilsome and exacting profession to accept a chairmanship of the State Board for Relief and Control of Tuberculosis, which entailed duties, if possible, more toilsome. His work on the Harvard Corporation was distinguished by the same thoroughness and comprehensive interest as he showed in his profession. His special committee had to do with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Fogg Art Museum. He also lectured at the Medical School and had served on the committee which supervised the construction of the new medical buildings. Dr. Cabot's career was one marked by comprehensive interests and severe work...
...Library now numbers 1,664,900 volumes and pamphlets, an increase of 75,851 over 1911. Since its average growth during the previous 5 years has been only 61,065, the above figures show a remarkable development in the part year. The College Library, including Gore Hall and 36 special reference collections, aggregates 1,053,506 volumes and pamphlets, as against 1,017,494 in 1911. Since 1840, the Library has doubled in size every twenty years...
From my experience of the Oxford Union, I am convinced that the Harvard Union can never entirely fill its proper place unless it affords a common interest, as well as a meeting place, for its members. Debating, of the parliamentary as opposed to the special pleading type, seems to me the only solution. Conversely, I do not believe that any "Forum" can take a permanent place in the life of the College so long as it remains homeless and unattached. The Union is the obvious and the necessary place for general discussion of affairs of interest. FREDERIC SCHENCK...
...Presidential elections today will be received this evening in the Union as soon as they have been reported to the press. This will be made possible by means of direct telegraphic communication between the secretary's office in the Union and the Associated Press, with which a special arrangement has been made...