Word: students
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continually recording the names of hitherto unknown, or long forgotten, cities and villages, which now distinguish themselves as hospitable hosts to a celebrated American. For those who have seen the map of South America through a glass darkly, these illuminating reports are becoming mines of information--the historical student can now locate the home of Bolivar, and the engineer the railroad passes across the Andes...
...amalgamation may still be observed in present-day Japan. The modern Japanese Buddhist pantheon is quite an international assembly containing as it does Indian, Chinese and purely Japanese personages The Tibetan and Chinese pantheons are less international, but their composite character does nevertheless present serious problems to the student of mythology. Most of those problems still await a solution, and the histories of many divinities must be written before a complete Buddhist mythology can be composed. As a matter of fact Buddhist mythology presents a maze complicated by the different way in which the Indian names are treated...
...course of undergraduate study without opportunity for seeing any large number of original works. That time has passed with two of the best permanent collections in the country situated in Boston, and with the growth of the Fogg Art Museum, but in the field of contemporary work the student must travel to New York in order to see any number of works large enough to be representative of current artistic endeavor. Monthly exhibitions which will attempt at least to touch on every field of contemporary work should in a large part fill this need...
...Field '26 was selected by the Student Council at a meeting held yesterday afternoon to represent Harvard at the National Student Federation conference which opens in Columbus, Missouri on Wednesday. The conference, an annual feature of the U.S.F.A. activities, has been attended by a Harvard representative for some years past. Field, who will uphold the Harvard part in this year's conference, was president of the CRIMSON as an undergraduate and also elected permanent treasurer of his class in his Senior year. He is now a third year student in the Law School where he is treasurer...
...Student Council devoted the rest of its attention yesterday to various questions which are left over from the football season. The Council voted in the first place to recommend that numerals be awarded to members of the Senior class football team in recognition of their playing both during the past season and during previous seasons. The Senior team lost the class championship to the Sophomores this year by one point in the official team ranking, but with their full strength on the field were rated the equals of the Sophomores. Although the Seniors had no legal claim to the award...