Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Charles Jackson '98, General Secretary of the University Alumni Association, will speak at the Senior Smoker to be held in the Union Wednesday evening. His subject will be the activities of the Alumni Association and the work of the Alumni Bulletin, of which he is clerk. Other speakers at the Smoker will be H. C. Flower, first marshal of the class, C. A. Clark, Jr., chairman of the Class Day Committee, and F. W. Whitman, A. Stevens, and W. W. McLeod, captains of the crew, track, and baseball teams respectively...
...Rouner '20 who is vice-president of the Association, will speak on the subject: "The Harvard Plan of Church Co-operation." H. M. Thurston '16 will also present a new basis for membership in the Associations...
...Taft's visit to the University will offer us an opportunity that cannot be disregarded. The former president of the United States has agreed to lecture here on The League of Nations, the subject that for this country overshadows completely all the other issues of the day. For many centuries, idealists have been giving their lives to ensure lasting peace, but none of them have succeeded. The new Covenant may be faulty, but it may, if properly drawn up, abolish the curse of war. If it is worth anything at all, it is inestimably valuable to every country and citizen...
...fact that tomorrow is a holiday, the fourth in a series of ten lectures in French by Dr. Louis Blaringhem, Professor of Agricultural Biology at the Sorbonne, and Exchange Professor at the University for 1918-19, originally scheduled for April 24, will be held this afternoon instead. His subject is "The Condition and Future of Agriculture in France," and today's topic will be "Anbres fruitiers; vignes; volailles. Qualites et debouches." The lecture will take place in Room A, Emerson Hall, at 4.30 o'clock...
...used in the Division of History, Government, and Economics to other departments, the Faculty has taken an important step which, if properly carried out, should increase the interest in scholarship at Harvard. The general examination is a much more adequate gauge of a man's knowledge of his subject than a series of tests at the end of each course. The latter are specific and detailed; a student may cram his head full of facts and pass them, but promptly forget all he has learned. College does not aim to inculcate a mass of detail which may be applied...