The Annual Report of the President of Harvard University to the Overseers on the State of the University for the Academic Year ...

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University Press, 1921
 

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Σελίδα 246 - SIR, — I have the honor to present the following report on the Fogg Art Museum for the year 1919-20.
Σελίδα 24 - If a university or college is a society or guild of scholars why does it need any separate body of trustees at all? Why more than learned societies which are obviously groups of scholars, and have no such boards recruited outside their own membership? One reason is to be found in the large endowments of our institutions of learning that require for investment a wide knowledge and experience of business affairs. In fact, as already pointed out, the vast complexity of a modern university has compelled...
Σελίδα 105 - The President of the National Academy of Sciences. Sir: I have the honor to present the following report on the publications and memberships of the National Academy of Sciences for the year ending April 19, 1916.
Σελίδα 260 - Undergraduates 1. European History from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Present Time (introductory course).
Σελίδα 73 - The Literary History of England and its Relations to that of the Continent from the Beginning to Chaucer.
Σελίδα 22 - The first man of the new type was James Bowdoin, elected in 1779 ; and since that time almost every choice was of this kind, the occasional clergymen elected being chosen not because incumbents of the neighboring parishes but for their personal value as counsellors. The only teachers in the University thereafter elected Fellows were Professor Eliphalet Pearson who served from 1800 to 1806, and Professor Ephraim W. Gurney who served from 1884 to 1886. "The change, however, did not take place without...
Σελίδα 23 - That, in the opinion of this board, it is not expedient to express any opinion on the subject of future elections.
Σελίδα 54 - Existence Theorems for the General Real Self-Adjoint Linear System of the Second Order." II. "Oscillation Theorems for the Real Self-Adjoint Linear System of the Second Order.
Σελίδα 159 - Professor GF MOORE. [History of Religions 7. The Religion of the Roman Empire at the Beginning of the Christian Era. Half-course.
Σελίδα 46 - Inconceivable though it be to some men, there are staid, middle-aged, and even distinguished graduates of Harvard College in the West to whom the sight of a crimson jersey in Illinois or California is not unlike the sight of their country's flag in a distant land; and, though anti-athletic people may regard them as fools, such feeling as theirs has a value that baffles words. The Committee were influenced also by the opportunity of showing that Harvard is not altogether self-sufficient and provincial,...

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