Word: views
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...December, 1879, just twenty-five years ago, appeared a number of the Harvard Advocate with which the writer had some relation. A comparison with the Christmas Advocate of 1904 suggests some interesting changes in the point of view of the college journalist. The old Advocate was distinctly a newspaper, and to a large degree, a Harvard newspaper; of the twelve pages of the issue, less than one was given to advertising, but it had two pages of editorials and three solid pages of brief correspondence, College news, "Lies of the Week," and so on. There were then no dailies...
...Senior elections yesterday are deserving of comment in view of the very significant fact that, notwithstanding the unprecedented avalanche of nominations by petition, the men elected were in every case those originally nominated by the committee. This conclusively proves that the deliberations of a committee are much more likely to result in acceptable nominations than the flightly decisions of individual petitions. There can be no objection to a petition in which only the names of those appear who will vote for the candidate, but this indiscriminate petitioning which is fostered by the thoughtless signing of anyone who is requested...
...Johnston of the History Department, will deliver a lecture this evening at 8 o'clock in Harvard 1 on "Numismatics of the Napoleonic and Risorgimento Periods." Mr. Johnston will treat the subject from an historical point of view, paying particular attention to the coins of Italy in what is known as the Risorgimento period, extending from the beginning of the French revolution to about...
...Hotchkiss is an expert in the languages of different African tribes, particularly that of one large tribe, whose dialect he has been collecting and translating, with a view to introduce English works among the people...
Metropolitan--"A Boy's eye View of a Circus," by J. Corbin '92; "Christmas and the Children," by E. S. Martin '77; "Lady Angela's Methods," by H. Rhodes '93: "If I Were Henry James," by E. S. Martin '77: "The Stage at Holiday Time," by J. E. Goodman...