Word: topic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...statement of their previous studies, submitting also any written work done by them. They shall further present themselves at an examination to be held not later than Thursday, June 1. Each candidate will be called upon to write in the examination room an essay on a topic chosen by himself from a list, not previously announced, in economics and political science. On the basis of all the evidence received the award will be made, not later than Thursday, June 15, on recommendation by the Department, solely with regard to the ability and promise of the several candidates, and without regard...
...Lythgoe, instructor in Egyptology, will give the second lecture on "The Excavations carried on by the Hearst. Egyptian Expedition, 1899-1905" this evening at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room. The special topic of the lecture will be "The Cemeteries of Girga...
...Fosdick opened the debate. Free election, he said, must not be interpreted as involving an abondonment of system. It is a prescribed quantity and a prescribed quality of work on a variable topic. In criticising this system it is important to discriminate clearly between results attributable to administrative methods and those which are manifestly attributable to the broad principle of free election. The affirmative does not underestimate the value on prescribed work, but maintains that the proper place for that work is not in the college but in the preparatory school...
About 80 members attended the annual dinner of the association, which was held in the Assembly Room of the Union at 1.15 o'clock. The after-dinner topic, "The Trafisition from the School to the College," was discussed by President Pritchett, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and by Dean Hurlbut...
...Eastman will load the meeting of the Civic Problems Course this evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Shepard Room, Phillips Brooks House. The topic for discussion will be "City and State Politics." Mr. Eastman graduated from Amherst in the class of 1904 and is at present the holder of the Amherst fellowship at the South End House, Boston...