Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attended by such men as President Lowell, and Ex-President Taft. He is also Foreign Secretary of the League of Nations Society in this country, and as such he aims to co-operate with similar organizations in other countries. His speech tonight will be on the subject of a League of Nations...
University and Freshman track teams will compete against the larger colleges of the East at the B. A. A. Indoor Track Meet, the Penn. Carnival, the I. C. A. A. A. A. Meet in May, and possibly at the A. A. U. Meet in Brooklyn in March. The schedule, subject to the approval of the Athletic Committee includes dual meets for the 1922 team with Worcester Academy, Exeter, Andover and Yale 1922. At the Service Track Meet in the East Armory, Boston, the fifteenth of next month, in addition to the University and Freshman relay teams, Coach Donovan plans...
President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia calls attention in his annual report to the growing importance of history and international law not only as subjects of study by the student body but as objects of reform by the college authorities. He emphasizes in particular the need for studying these two subjects in their comparative aspects. In making this allusion, Dr. Butler has probably hit upon as grave an error in our system of pedagogy as can ever be made the subject of controversy by our educational reformers. It is that of allowing personal or national or even religious bias...
...rare for a research worker of the first rank to be also a real teacher of his subject. It is even rarer for such a man to prove that he is not a mere cultured ornament of a practical world but a strong support in time of need. Professor Sabine was all three. Science remembers him for his studies in acoustics. The men of the University hold him dear for those hours in Jefferson when notes and books were forgotten as "sound ghosts" and electric discharges were made real by a man who had explored all their wonders...
...LL.D. '98, Mayor of Boston, will be the guest of honor and principal speaker at the meeting of all undergraduates who are interested in social service in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, next Thursday evening at 7.45 o'clock. Mayor Peters' is to deliver an address on the subject of "Reconstruction...