New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-20
IN THE COLLEGE WORLD.
HARVARD.

Cambridge, Mass Oct. 10 (SpeciaD.-Among the
schemes which have been devised this year to make
newcomers at Harvard acquainted with the UNI
versity is a course of four lectures on Ihe En-
vironment of Harvard" announced by the COM
mittee on the Reception of New Students. 20 DC
given on successive Thursday evenings in the Fogs
Museum. The first of these lectures whicn was ue-
Hvered last Thursday night by Dean Smaller con-
sidered the Immediate surroundings OF tine uiiiEei
sfty. On October % ]. @. Thorpe viii give an Illus
trated lecture on '"The Charles River" This VIII
be followed on November by another lecture also
illustrated by the stereopticon, on Architecture
In and About Boston" by Professor II. L. war
rem The last lecture OF the series will be on the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts. delivered BY EDWARD
Robinson its curator.
The Board of Overseers of Harvard College mas
appointed the following committee to nominate
visiting committees for 1901: Professors norton
Hooper, Storey, Bancroft and Seaver and CharleS
Francis Adams. The election to settle the tie
which occurred in the election for the fifth over
seer last June has been indefinitely postponed
The Cerce Francais will give two plays this year.
''Crispin Medecin" and 1.-THE Jeune Homme
Presse." The speaking parts in these plays-eight
In the first and three in the second-wiil be as
signed by competition -Four performances will be
yates night, a regular performance in Cambridge
and two In Boston. NJ Bernard last years coach,
Inc large number Of charitable and seml-educa-
tional student organizations which exist at pres
solidating these in order, that they may do the
most effective work. AT the nrSt university meet
ing the year in Phillips Brooks House addresses
given by representatives of the Student Vol
unteer Committee the Christian Association, Pros
pect Union, st. Paul's Society the Catholic Club.
the Committee University Meetings and the
Religious Union. Dean Briggs. in introducing the
first speaker, remarked that students in college
find it hard to be contented with quietly receiving
benefits, and not giving to others at is this feel
ing he said, which has caused the Student Vol
unteer movement One danger there Is which must
always be avoided. In their enthusiasm students
are apt to devote more time than they, can afford
such matters and by so doing to defeat their
own objects" more careful partition of the fields
open to the different ORGANIZATIONS is being made.
and it is hoped in this way to avoid the danger
which Dean Briggs pointed out
BY the death of Professor c. Q. Everett, dean OF
the Divinity School and senior active professor OF
the faculty of arts and sciences. Harvard has lost
the services in short time of three of her
Oldest and best known professors. Professor
Everett came TO Harvard October T. 1868, to take
the chair Of theology. so that his services TO the
university covered period of thirty-one years,
during twenty-five of which he held the place Of
dean in the Theological School To men in ad-
vanced courses and students in the graduate
schools he filed the position of a warm friend and
adviser. and among these he was greatly beloved
and admired. Last June, on the occasion OF his
SEVENTEEN birthday: the advanced students OF the
university gave dinner in his honor at the Hotel
Vendome. in Boston. He win be deeply missed also
by the Harvard faculty. among whom he was
known a strong and independent thinker.