Word: take
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...story. One Commencement Day he met an undergraduate whom he asked to pick out their fellow-townsmen on the Honor List. With a laugh of contempt his friend replied: "We don't go in much for that." Professor Webster and a great many critics of American higher education would take this instance as typical of the proverbial Harvard indifference. There is still considerable justification for their opinion. Yet during the last two years Americans, and American students in particular, have undoubtedly tended to face more seriously the intellectual and social problems which they encounter. This sudden Renaissance is part...
...students in the College except those who entered before 1910 must pass before the end of their second year a special oral examination to test their power of translating either French or German. Opportunity to take either or both of these examinations will be given in the afternoons, beginning Wednesday, January 17. All candidates who wish to take an oral examination must notify the Recorder, 4 University Hall, in writing on or before Saturday, January...
Plans are being made for the production of a Cambridge pageant to take place in the Stadium next spring. Professor G. P. Baker '87, of the Department of English, who has helped produce several pageants, is preparing to write the book. Those who have the pageant in charge plan to take advantage of the impressive historical setting of Cambridge and the opportunity offered by the Stadium for staging such a spectacle to picture to the children of this vicinity especially, the part that Cambridge has played in American history. It is the intention, furthermore, to have children take part...
...little over a year since the Regiment was organized, and January 10, 1916, was the date of the first regimental orders issued by Captain Cordier appointing non-commissioned officers. On that same evening the first drill was held in the baseball cage. The dinner will therefore take place on the exact anniversary of the first actual work of the Harvard Regiment...
...assistant postmaster-general, and William S. Culbertson, who has had much experience with South American trade. Other doubtful reports are to the effect that Miss Ida M. Tarbell will be invited to serve on the commission. It is understood that President Wilson is particularly anxious to have the commission take up the question of changed economic conditions after the war. The personnel of the board will probably be announced this week, so that the appointments may be sent to the Senate for ratification soon after it reconvenes...