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...work to be attempted the Business School will co-operate with the Boston Chamber of Commerce and similar bodies in the immediate vicinity. Close contact between the school and the business community will not only be of great value to students, but will give the institution a larger sphere of influence...
...Harvard men in the realm of letters and scholarship is well set forth in the current American Review of Reviews which devotes several of its pages to a review of the recent authoritative books on social and economic subjects, and to some of the worthy works in the sphere of literature. In connection with the problem of railroads, the review points out that the whole subject of railroad rates and regulations is covered with great thoroughness and clarity in a volume of Professor William Z. Ripley. Among the works treating industrial questions, is noted as worthy of commendation...
...structure of the "Paradiso" follows closely the Ptolemaic system of astronomy. There are seven heavens: the first seven are represented by the "seven planets of Ptolemy"; the eighth heaven by the fixed stars or milky way; the ninth heaven by a crystalline sphere; and the tenth by the Empyrion, which is the furthest from earth. In this structural system, Dante shows that the further we are from God the less capable we are of entering into His Spirit, and that as the Empyrion is the centre of the heavens, yet embracing them all so God is both centre and circumference...
...score of departments; the steady widening of the field from which it draws its students; its renunciation of a strict classical and theological training for a broad cultural education and the elective system; its gradual relaxation of Puritanical discipline; and its constant progress to a wider sphere of influence--how all this happened every Harvard man should know...
...clock. There will be addresses by President Lowell, Professor G. H. Palmer, and Dr. A. P. Fitch. This service is intended primarily for all members of the class of 1916 who are not in the habit of regularly attending chapel. It should bring these men within its sphere and show them what advantages the regular service has to offer...