Word: stands
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Faculty has issued another statement with regard to its recent stand on the athletic question. It appears that the idea of largely curtailing the number of intercollegiate contests did not originate at Harvard, but at a meeting of the Association of Colleges in New England, held at Cambridge early in December. The vote was communicated to the colleges represented in the Association and Harvard has conveyed to the Association its official approval of the plan...
...announced, the Dental School has received promise of the funds necessary for the erection of a new building. The site which has been chosen is the lot at the corner of Longwood avenue and Wigglesworth street, Brookline, adjoining the property on which the buildings of the Medical School now stand. This lot, with a frontage of 80 feet on Longwood avenue and 233 feet on Wigglesworth street, was bought by the Corporation in 1905 for $36,000. It is an excellent situation for the new building, both from its convenient proximity to the Medical School, and because the new hospitals...
...method of the course will be constructive rather than historical. Although the general view-point will be technical, educational problems will be treated from a non-professional stand-point. Froebel's theories reflect closely the tendencies of the romantic movement, and lead to the consideration of the work of Carlyle, Ruskin, Emerson, Novalis, Schelling, Goethe, and Schiller...
...indicative of the spirit in which the Verein is conducted. Possibly the unusual activity this year is due to peculiar causes; but whatever the reason, the other foreign societies will do well to follow this plan, and endeavor to be really representative of the countries for which they stand. Our foreign societies are too much inclined to feel free from their responsibilities after the presentation of a stereotyped annual play. We believe that their organization should be much broader, and that the social aspect should be subordinated to the encouragement of study of the literature and language of their country...
...lack of personal contact and fellowship with the older men of our community; and the comparatively few attempts which meet with any success at all in opening up this phase of life which is so full of benefit for both the mature and the growing members of the University, stand out quite uniquely. It is difficult to analyze the causes of this condition of affairs, but in the main we believe that both students and Faculty are to blame with a more or less considerable portion charged to the atmosphere of our highly academic University. This, we confess...