Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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William M. Irvins, Jr., Curator of Prints of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will lecture in the Fogg Art Museum this evening at 8 o'clock, on the subject, "Goya as an Etcher." The lecture is open...
...subject will frequently be dismissed with the common maxim: "You get out of your college exactly what you put into it," and undoubtedly, the student himself is, in large measure to blame for his attitude. But we are inclined to believe that the fault does not rest entirely with the undergraduate. Of course, it is inevitable that some men will take a more active interest in scholarship than others; the point is to increase the average interest, and to break down the wall which now exists between the lecture room and life...
...cannot in justice deny that the responsibility of whether that machinery has worked well or ill rests largely with the attitude he has taken. Take the case of concentration and distribution, which is such a bugbear at present. How many have given serious study and thought to the subject, for say fifteen minutes at a time? Or how many who have disliked to exercise their minds to that extent have talked to their Faculty Adviser upon the subject? Its very purpose would indicate that it may not be the simplest subject, but still it seems one that would not strain...
...second of this year's series of Phi Beta Kappa dinners will take place on Friday at 6.30 o'clock in the Trophy Room at the Union. Mr. Harold J. Laski, sometime Fellow at New College, Oxford, will speak on the subject: "The possibilities of a university." All members of the Phi Beta Kappa, whether members of the University chapter or not, are invited...
...close of the Overseers' meeting on Monday, it was announced that the University was to purchase the Palfrey estate, on which the Naval Radio School drill hall is erected. This was the decision reached by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt after a conference on the subject with Mayor Edward W. Quinn, of Cambridge. It is planned to maintain the site as a public park and the drill hall for community purposes. The value of the estate is placed...