Word: western
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...action of the Faculty in authorizing the musical clubs to take a western trip will meet with general approval. Harvard has stood practically alone in its prohibition of a long trip, and graduates living in many western cities have long desired to revive the plan of bringing the clubs to cities in which a large Harvard representation would insure the success of concerts. We are confident that the trip will be of value to the graduates as well as to the members of the clubs, and we hope that all financial obstacles will be satisfactorily removed...
...yesterday's meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences permission was granted to the University Musical Clubs to arrange for a trip through the western cities, to be taken during the Christmas recess. This is but the first step in the project, as the financing and itinerary still remain to be arranged before the trip can be definitely announced...
...first glance the figures of enrollment may seem somewhat discouraging; but when the extraordinary growth and improved facilities of the western institutions, as well as certain changes within the University are considered, the registration should be gratifying to those who judge Harvard's strength by its numbers,--at best a superficial test. The increasing tendency to complete the requirements for an A.B. degree in three years and the changes in the Scientific School account for much of the loss in the undergraduate departments. In the slow but steady growth of the Law and Medical Schools is found an ample vindication...
...Bynner has struck out lines which phrase the Harvard College of his own time in a thoroughly representative spirit. The poem is as unique among odes as it is among works dealing with the life in American colleges. George Ade has satirized the exuberance of the western "universities"; Cornell, Princeton, Columbia and Harvard has each its volume of "stories." The striking fact about Mr. Bynner's ode is that it could no more have come from any other college in America except Harvard than the life it portrays could be the life of any other college. It would appear that...
...Wells '97, Secretary of the Harvard Alumni Association, 50 State street, Boston; with the Secretary of the Harvard Club of New York City, N. Y., and at the office of Mr. Delano in Chicago, where they can be had by applying to Mr. John DeLaMater, 515 Western Union Building...