Word: successful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Class Day Committee have been opposed to the wearing of caps and gowns before Class Day. So far as the committee can ascertain, this seems to be the feeling throughout the class. Although in theory the idea commends itself to almost everyone, in practice it has never proved a success. Therefore the committee feels justified in deciding that the class shall wear caps and gowns only on Baccalaureate Sunday, Class Day and Commencement. There is, however, a decided feeling among a majority of the class that there should be some means of designating Seniors. Of the several suggestions which have...
...afternoons and evenings which are "free to most of us" and which conceivably would be spend in the club, shows nothing but the writer's misconception of the purpose and function of the Harvard Union. The men whose frequent presence in the Harvard Union is necessary to its greatest success are not men who can often afford an entire afternoon or evening; they are men who will most frequently drop in between whiles, for a few minutes relaxation before or after settling down to a lot of work, or attending to other interests. The very life of such a club...
...unexpected success of last year's summer school will doubtless make the summer session a permanent feature of the work of the Divinity School. The number of students who attended last year was 105, of whom eighty-nine were ordained ministers...
...walk to the club would be shortened by almost 100 seconds. Moreover the student could drop in for a minute or so between lectures, but how short are those minutes when compared with the whole afternoon and evening which is free to most of us! How unimportant to the success of the club is that ebb and flow "between the acts...
...success which attended the production of Lessing's "Minna von Barnhelm" in Philadelphia, under the patronage of the University of Pennsylvania, suggested to members of the German Department of Harvard the desirability of putting before the University a classic German play. Mr. Heinrich Conried, proprietor and manager of the Irving Place Theatre in New York, has always shown the greatest interest in the maintenance on the stage of the older classic drama, and consequently an appeal was made to him. To this appeal he responded with the utmost readiness and generosity; and, through his enthusiasm for the drama of Germany...