Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Roger Pierce '04, Secretary to the Corporation of the College has resigned and F. W. Hunnewell '02, comptroller of the University, who left last March for Washington to associate himself with the Committee on Education and Special Training in the War Department, will take his place. After an absence of eleven months Mr. Hunnewell has now returned and in addition to his former duties will assume those of Secretary to the Corporation. The resignation is to take effect on February 15. Mr. Pierce leaves the University to accept the position of Vice-President of the New England Trust Company...
...hearers an understanding of the subjects treated, which served as a firm foundation for further study. In research he was exceedingly productive, and in the brief span that was accorded him for his scientific labors he has given to the world a notable series of memoirs in his special field of projective differential geometry...
...special session of the Law School similar to that of the Graduate School of Business Administration will commence next Monday, February 3. It will run continuously until August 30, with a short recess from April 13 to April 19. Applicants for admission are expected to register at Langdell Hall on or before February...
Such a program strikes to the very heart of all education and opens the way to the much contended question: What should the college seek to accomplish? Should it train the individual in special attainment or should it cultivate that elasticity of mind and broadness of outlook which distinguish the student from the artisan? In President Lowell's understanding, the development of the mind as a whole is its object, a mind sympathetic and without prejudice, which from its long practice in jumping intellectual hurdles will better adjust itself to the changing needs of the time and more easily follow...
...largest item in the sales column of the Harvard stores was that of books, amounting to $40,165.18. Stationery came second with $30,549.90, followed by men's furnishings, $24,043.64; university stationery, $18,855.73; tailoring, $18,269.00; Radio School, $12,756.17; special furniture, $11,129.81; coal and special men's furnishings, $7,663.91; reg-special men's furnishings, $7,663.96; regular furniture, $7,198.03; and athletic goods, $1,008.84. At the Technology Branch Store the largest item was stationery, while books were next in demand...