Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Stark, superintendent of the vacation schools in Cambridge, will speak on "The Vacation Schools of the Massachusetts Civic League," in Sever 17, at 8 o'clock tonight. The lecture, which is open to all members of the University, will be of interest not only from an educational point of view, but also to students of sociology and government...
...Social Forces in German Literature" has been published by Henry Holt & Co., under the title of "A History of German Literature." An English edition by George Bell & Sons has appeared simultaneously. The book is an attempt to define the essential features of German Literature made from the point of view of the student of civilization rather than that of the linguistic scholar or the literary critic. It is based on original study of the sources, giving a coherent account of the great intellectual movement of German life as expressed in literature. Among other interesting subjects is a very full treatment...
...century to the present day. It differs from other collections mainly in that it goes back to an earlier period, including selections from such poets as Campoamor, Valere and Nunez de Arce. From each century typical authors have been chosen, and the various poems have been selected with a view to representing the movements in which the authors played a part. An attempt has also been made to selected poems which have been translated into English by Long-fellow, Bryant, Churton, Lockhart Gibson, and others. The poems of living Spanish authors have been selected by the authors themselves or with...
...Student Volunteer Committee has just been entirely reorganized with a view toward making it a more efficient working body and giving it a more definite constitution. As it was sometimes confused with the intercollegiate student volunteer movement, with which it has no connection, its name has been changed to the "Harvard Social Service Committee." Its general purpose is to be essentially the same as in the past, namely, to stimulate and guide voluntary charitable work among the students. It is hoped that it may become more and more the radiating centre for all this class of activities, both by being...
...editorial takes rather a desponding view of the decision of the Senior class to wear caps and gowns: "Unless every Senior wears the cap and gown, the main sentimental purpose of the scheme will certainly be lost,--namely, the bringing of Seniors into close relations with each other;" and, in conclusion, it expresses the fear that "it is highly improbable that these distinctions, which have no tradition behind them, will bring together classes which the natural evolution of the University is irresistibly disuniting...