Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...habit of keeping pretty close to their laboratories and mingling with the immutable laws of nature rather than the variabilities of human social life. Any organization, however specialized, which brings these men together with others in their field is a step to helping them to a broader point of view. There are of course regular national and local Chemical societies, but an association purely of Harvard men has an advantage in that it supplies a common meeting ground exclusively of field interest...
...subjects represented are the symbols of Death and Victory in the left panel and the coming of the Americans to Europe on the right. Happily, Mr. Sargent made no attempt at historical rendering and treated his scheme broadly from the decorative point of view. In the panel of the Coming of the Americans he has filled the space with a mighty column of American youths in uniform, slashing the composition boldly from right to left in the lower right hand side are three figures symbolic of France. Belgium, and England France in the foreground, wearing the Phrygian cap, carries...
Again the Reading Period has been pronounced an official success, this time from the medical point of view. In support of the thesis that the health of the undergraduate body had been better during the pre-examination respite the Department of Hygiene cites the figures for excused absences during January and May 1928. Upper-classmen show the most remarkable improvement, while the first-year men, who come under the influence of the Reading Period only in exceptional cases, have been little less sickly than during the days before the innovation...
This will be the last exhibition put on during the college year. It will remain on view during the better part of the summer, certainly until after the Summer School visitors have departed...
Tomorrow there will go on sale the 1929 issue of the Harvard Aubum, which immortalizes the various literary efforts of elected poets. Besides this service it will also afford a birdseye view of the members of the Senior class, from the man who was in college one year as an undergraduate to the distinguished individual who lists five sports and innumerable committee and executive positions. Of the man who spent his four years in conscientious searching after truth and gradual strengthening of the fibres of his character there will be little more to be seen than of those who toiled...