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...thirteenth annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers' Association will be held in the New Lecture Hall on Saturday morning, March 5, at 10 o'clock. The topic for discussion will be, "The Scope and Aims of the Professional Training of College-bred Teachers." Papers will be read by Arthur O. Norton '98, F. C. Lewis '97, director of the Graduates School of Pedagogy, Dartmouth, and George H. Locke, Assistant Professor of Education, University of Chicago. The general discussion following the papers will be lead by Professor P. H. Hanus...
...clock, Professor L. Wiener will deliver an address on "The Life and Literature of the Spanish Jews in Turkey." On March 4 Senor Laureano Cortes, a graduate of Lehigh University in the class of 1889 and at present Cuban consul at Boston, will speak upon some topic of current interest. On March 25, Mr. J. Geddes '80, Professor of Romance Languages in Boston University, will speak on "La Actividad Literaria Reciente en Espana," and on April 15, F. W. Morrison '00, instructor in Spanish and French, will give an address on "The Novelist Valdes." These three addresses will...
...first of the series of lectures provided for by the gift of Gardiner M. Lane '81, will be given in the spring by Dr. S. H. Butcher, until, recently professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Butcher's general subject will be on some topic connected with Greek literature, but the individual subjects of his six lectures have not yet been announced. The lectures will be given in the Fogg Lecture Room on the following dates: Monday, March 28; Thursday, March 31; Monday, April 4; Friday, April 8; Monday, April 11; and Thursday, April...
...meeting of the Massachusetts Schoolmasters' Club, at the Hotel Brunswick, in Boston, this afternoon the general topic "Some Aspects of Modern Science" will be discussed. Professor W. C. Sabine '88, will speak on "Radio Activity;" Professor William Sedgwick, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on "Science and Health," and Mr. J. C. Packard, of the Brookline High School, on "The Place of Modern Science in the School Curriculum." Professor P. H. Hanus is president of the club. A dinner at 1 o'clock will precede the regular meeting...
...Ficke, and possibly the story entitled "A Guileless Youth," by H. M. Trieber. The former is good because, with its direct and easy style it elaborates a half grave, half humorous thought with something of the same charm that a good conversationalist may give to even a little topic. The latter is worthy of mention, because, though devoid of any especial skill in phrasing, it does draw a characterization that smacks of real human nature. It seems genuine, even if not altogether finished, and after all genuineness is what one most wants in stories for College periodicals. Even trivial incidents...