University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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Cosmopolitan Harvard v G. X. PHIUJPS ' 13, PKESIDENT OF THE HAKVABD CMMSOX, THE UNIVERSITY DAILY From the simple to the com- plex such in brief is the his- tory of Harvard. Founded as a college in 1636, Harvard was for over half a century, until the College of William and Mary was chartered in Virginia, in 1693, the only college in the country. Cambridge, now a thriving city of over one hundred thousand people, was then a fron- tier settlement, and there is still lingering evidence of this fact in the clumps of willows, sprouts from the old stockade against the Indians, crossing what is now part of the College grounds. The year following its foundation, Harvard was established in Xew- towne. and the name of the town was changed to Cambridge. The University includes Har- vard College, and the following graduate schools requiring a Bachelor ' s degree for admission: the Schools of Divinity. Law. Medicine. Arts and Sciences, Applied Science, and Business Administration. This organization, unique among educational institutions, has enabled the University to do as much as a single institution can do to maintain the more liberal course of study in American colleges as an essential part of our educational system. Such an organization has brought to Cambridge many ambitious students from all parts of the country, serving as an effective safeguard against provincialism and promoting keen intellectual zeal and competition. Today Harvard is a small city in itself, with a student registration of four thousand four hundred and fifty students and a teaching staff numbering seven hundred and seventy-four. The College proper contains two thousand three hundred and eight students, and in addition to the Law School with seven PRESIDENT LOWELL

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power are not always as broad or as wise as those that maturer men might apply. But such as the competition is, it is fairly conducted more fairly than in almost any other community. Nor does Yale confine its appreciation to the man who has succeeded. To him who comes out first it gives the prize. To him who has tried and fallen short it gives honorable recognition and encouragement to try again. It condemns none except the man who was too lazy or too self-centered to try at all. These, then are the things for which Yale stands: The pursuit of truth as an ideal, the development of breadth of understanding, and the training for citizenship which results from fair competition and government by public opinion. (Courtesy of Life at Yale. ) EX-PRESIDENT TAFT, NOW PROFESSOR TAFT

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UNIVERSITY HALL AND YARD AT HARVARD hundred and forty-one students, and the Medical School with two hundred and ninety students, there are hundreds of men registered in the various other departments, including the Divinity School, Dental School, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Applied Science, and Summer School. The College, founded in 1636 upon an appropriation of four hundred pounds by the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, received in the second year of its existence a bequest from John Harvard of his library and half his property. For one hundred and fifty years it did not begin to add the professional schools which have combined with it to form the University, and today it still remains, by tradition, by weight of numbers, and by reason of the fundamental importance of liberal studies, the very heart of the University. As far back as 1740, and even earlier, admission to the College has been by examination, and from the first considerable latitude has been permitted to candidates in the selection of subjects for examination. At the present time, by a general group examination system. Harvard is able to offer to schools far remote equal opportunities with private and public schools near Cambridge in the way of preparing boys for the entrance requirements. A candidate ' s record in school is always taken into consideration if he enters under the new group plan.