Word: working
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...disagree with the President and advocate the continuance of the ordinary four-year residence, accompanied by an increase in the requirements for a degree. IF such a step were taken, we believe that all the good results desired by him would be brought about. A greater amount of work would be necessary than at present; the Senior class would be unified; and the average age at graduation would be lowered with the realization of the necessity of getting into business at an early age. It should not be made impossible to be graduated in three yours, for that would...
...glad to see the President's appreciation of the improvement in athletic, as shown in the way the sports themselves have been conducted and in the growing feeling that they, ought always to yield pleasure and healthful vigor instead of grinding, unenjoyable work and injurious exhaustion." Football he still considers unfit for college uses, both because of the roughness of the game itself and of the way it affects gambling and exaggerated excitement...
Professor G. A. Reisner '89, of the Semitic Department, now on leave of absence, will shortly resume the work of excavation at Samaria, in Palestine, at the head of the Harvard expedition. The summer campaign of 1908, superintended by Professor D. G. Lyon h.'01, continued intermittently for several months. The results were very gratifying. This year it is hoped that retarding difficulties in the way of few and inefficient workmen will not be encountered...
...assumption of the active work of excavation by Professor Reisner will be a return to the original plan, rendered impossible last year by his engagement in Egypt. Ample funds for the work have been provided by Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, of New York...
...Pierian Sodality will give a concert at the Parker Memorial, an institution in South Boston for social work, this evening at 8 o'clock. Invitations have been sent to its members and to many of its friends among settlement workers. Dancing and refreshments will follow the concert...