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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Murdouck '16 will speak on "Increase Mather's 'Illustrious Providence'--Superstition or Science?" at the meeting of the Modern Language Conference this evening at 8 o'clock in Conant Hall Common Room. "Matthew Arnold and Confucian Humanism" will be the topic of H. H. Chang ocC. the other speaker of the evening. The meeting is upon to all members of the University...
...consider "Science 1"; ultimately it would probably cover, under the general topic "the structure of matter", the electron, the atom, the molecule, and all the various phenomena that are classified under such heads. And in addition it would point out the relationship between these phenomena and the phenomena of astronomy. "Science 2" would be concerned essentially with evolution, both of organic and inorganic substances. These are fields of so great importance and such large scope that the course could easily include as well the main principles of botany and zoology...
...last week of November, probably the 27th, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise will speak at an open meeting held under the auspices of the Club. Rabbi Wise has chosen for his topic "The Race Question...
Tobacco, its joys and sorrows, has caused much spilling of ink serious and otherwise, from the time of Raleigh, Jonson and the first James to the ever-existing present. Accordingly we should be willing to let the topic rest there, as last handled all too competently by Barrie, and not attempt to break forcibly into the literary roll of fame. Yet the old adage, "autre temps, autre moeurs", still holds good--and the custom of letting our betters have a free field in "Tobacco" must be for once forgotten under the pressure of the latest news from Russia...
...annual conference of the Harvard Teachers' Association will begin tomorrow morning at 9.45 o'clock with a business meeting in Sanders Theatre. Conference and the annual dinner of the Association will complete the program. The general topic for discussion this year will be "Educational Foundations and the Administration of Educational Endowments." Different phases of this subject will be discussed in the morning by Dr. Clyde Furst, secretary of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Dr. S. P. Capen '00, director of the American Council on Education; and Dr. Wallace Buttrick, president of the General Education Board...