Word: yesterday
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...decided yesterday afternoon by the Senior button committee that designs should be obtained from several manufacturers for the class buttons. A simple device in blue and white, the class colors, probably containing the numeral "10" will be chosen very soon. The buttons, which are expected to cost about 25 cents each, will be put on sale shortly after the Christmas recess at Leavitt & Peirce's and at the Co-operative...
Such a conference as was held yesterday by President Hadley, President Lowell, Mr. Camp, and Mr. Haughton is significant of a new spirit entering into football affairs. That the game is in such a condition that reform is needed has been apparent to all; that four men representing the interests which these men represent should start the reform, is a very hopeful sign for the future...
...final dedication ceremonies of the new building of the Harvard Dental-School on Longwood avenue, Boston, will be held today in the new building, at Sanders Theatre, and the Hotel Somerset. Yesterday the building was open for public inspection from 9 to 1 o'clock. In the afternoon the Officers of Instruction and Government of Harvard College received a number of invited guests at tea and in the evening the same committee held a reception to all men registered in the University...
James M. MacKaye '95, spoke on "The True criterion of Right" in the first of his series of five lectures on "Political Engineering" yesterday afternoon. He explained that in the field of industry and mechanics, our civilization is in keeping with our idea of the twentieth century, because scientific methods of Investigation have been applied. In the field of ethics, however, our civilization is distinctly mediaeval, inasmuch as our moral codes are based upon personal Intuition and not upon scientific research. Mr. MacKaye believes that if scientific principles are applied to our code of morals, it will be as easy...
...death yesterday at the Stillman Infirmary of Professor Charles Gross, the University loses one of her greatest scholars and most devoted servants. For the past 21 years he has worked here with unflagging energy and zeal, a shining example for his pupils, and an object of love and admiration to all who knew him; while his books have brought to Harvard wide renown in his chosen field of Mediaeval English History both in this country and in Europe. Modest, unselfish and retiring, with the broad outlook and noble charity of judgment which supplement and adorn the highest attainment, he labored...