Word: address
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the half a thousand delegates had filed across the stage in Sanders Theatre, each one being personally received by Conant, who was dressed in a sombre black gown, the President of the University made his welcoming address in which he said.". . . Almost a hundred years ago Ralph Waldo Emerson, speaking of the American scholar declared that 'the scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.' In this troubled century the burden is to be borne not by one individual...
...Individual" was Corrado Gini, Professor of Statistics and Sociology at the University of Rome, and Visiting Lecturer at Harvard during the last half-year. After a discussion of the cyclical and permanent factors which influence the collective control of society over the individual, Professor Gini in his address on "Authority and the Individual during the Different Stages of Evolution of the Nations" expressed the hope that a consideration of them might aid in obtaining a better understanding between nations today...
...forces which caused the germination of various cultures before the beginning of recorded history were discussed by Vere Gordon Childe, Professor of Prehistoric Archeology at the University of Edinburgh, in an address entitled "A Prehistorian's Interpretation of Diffusion." Although Professor Childe started out by saying: "Discussions of diffusion are apt to degenerate into combats where in only dust is diffused . . ." he made some very definite comments concerning the influence of environmental factors in aiding intercourse between the urban civilizations of the early Orient...
...Landsteiner, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1930 for his discovery of the blood groups, is connected with the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. He has studied for many years the phenomena of immunity, and his address before the Physical Science session on "Parasitism" was entitled "Serological and Allergic Reactions with Simple Chemical Compounds," a subject closely allied with immunity. The specific contribition to the subject disclosed in the address was that "drug idiosyncrasy, in many cases at least, comes into the same category as anaphylaxis...
...Undergraduate Delegates, in the Eliot House Court at 4 o'clock, will be open to Undergraduates and invited guests. It will be opened by selections from the Harvard Band, which will be followed by an address of welcome by John B. Bowditch '37, co-Chairman of the Undergraduate Tercentenary Committee and President of the Harvard Student Council...