Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...seems too late for any mass-meeting or canvassing of the University. Why it is so easy at Harvard to arouse interest in a plan and so hard to get anything done, we do not venture to explain. All we can do is to try and keep the subject alive and to urge the members of the Junior class to make themselves famous next year by really starting the movement successfully...
There still remains, however, ample time for the settlement of two athletic questions of considerable importance. A good many weeks ago there was considerable discussion of the two-period rule, and steps were taken to bring the subject of its abolition to the attention of the Athletic Committee. We have not heard whether it is being held under consideration at the present time, but as very few meetings of the Committee remain before the end of the term, we risk the criticism of over-persistence by again urging the Committee to abolish this unfair regulation before the year is over...
...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...
...could translate the German English back into his real German. Professor Kuehnemann misses in President Eliot "what might remind us of Kant," and he, or his translator, supplies it abundantly. Yet the exotic style marks well enough the peculiar character of the book. It is no treatment of the subject, simply for its own sake, such as an especially qualified person may some day undertake. It comes "as an homage of Germany to President Eliot . . . and at the same time to America in the person of her representative educator." It "should be regarded as a fruit of the intellectual exchange...
...final competition last evening for the first and second cups offered by the Speaker's Club for the best original ten-minute speeches on any subject whatever, the first cup was awarded to St. J. Perret '10, who delivered "A Eulogy over the Tomb of Father Turgis, a Chaplain of the Southern Army in the Civil War, on the Occasion of a Reunion of Confederate Veterans." B. S. Van Rensselaer '10 was awarded the second cup for a speech on "Social Life at Harvard." The judges were E. Bernbaum '02, F. W. C. Hersey '99, and A. H. Lyber...