Word: terms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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After so many years of active service at Harvard University, it is hard to realize that but little over a month remains of President Eliot's term of office, and that tonight will probably be the last opportunity for all the members of the University to hear him speak. Throughout his career, the President has addressed the students several times every year, and they have always been only too glad to come to his addresses. At Freshman receptions, at meetings of the Union, at Brooks House conferences, at academic meetings in Sanders, at dinners and at other occasions without number...
After Mr. Carter was graduated from the University, he held the position of graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House for two years. At the end of this term he left for India, where he took up his residence in Calcutta, to act as national secretary in India for the Young Men's Christian Association, and has been supported largely by the Harvard Mission. Last year he was recalled to work among the student associations of colleges in North America...
...will be a pleasure to see him again about the Yard in these last short weeks of his long term as president, and we are glad to hear that he will address the undergraduates, a few times more before his retirement from the office which he has filled so ably...
...some reason or other, we do not like to attribute it to the laziness of the Musical Clubs, very few have been held in recent years, in spite of the constant appeals of the undergraduates; and what was once one of the most pleasant features of the spring term has been allowed practically to disappear. With the Freshman and University Musical Clubs and the Pierian Sodality, it ought to be possible to arrange for one or more of these concerts every week in the warm weather. Undesirable publicity could be avoided by holding them in some part of the Yard...
...President Eliot's last report to the Board of Overseers, he deals at length with two questions of great importance to the undergraduates. In regard to three-year graduation, the President believes that the regular College term should be reduced to that period. Such a change would raise the standard of labor in College, prevent the present confusion of the fourth year and "bring earlier into their professions the best trained young men." These results would undoubtedly be well worth accomplishing, but the benefit and pleasure to be derived from spending four years in Harvard College are not things...