Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Regulations: "No student is permitted to take any books or papers into the examination room except by express direction of the instructor. No communication is permitted between students in the examination room on any subject whatever...
...David Garrick" was the subject of Mr. Copeland's lecture yesterday afternoon. This is the first public lecture on Garrick that has ever been given at Harvard. Mr. Copeland, in his introductory remarks, spoke of the present condition of the stage and of the theatre going public, and then at length of Garrick's career, triumphs, acting and unusually complex character. During his first public season, in 1742 at Drury Lane, Garrick performed eighteen different characters, and this versatility marked his entire career until its close in 1776. In his choice of plays he satisfied the romantic longings...
...view of these changed conditions within the province of secondary education the ultimate principle on which Harvard College tends to act in the matter of admission requirements is this the College inclines to count for admission any subject which is taught in good secondary schools long enough and well enough to make the study of it a substantial part of a training appropriate to the pupil's capacity and degree of maturity...
Appended to the President's report, are reports from the heads of the several departments, and from the Treasurer. Dean Briggs's suggestions on the subject of "dropped Freshmen" and his final observations on the relation of the College and the Graduate School are of special interest...
...Samuel B. Capen, ex-president of the Boston School Board, president of the Municipal League, and one of the foremost citizens of greater Boston, will speak before the union this evening at 744 Mass. avenue, Cambridgeport, at 7.45. Mr. Capen's subject will be, "Good Citizenship." These Wednesday evening lectures are free to men. Harvard men are invited...