Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening oration of President Conant, the special Ode to Harvard by Herman Hagedorn '07, and President-Emeritus Lowell's address, presiding at the Tercentenary meeting of the Alumni Association have all been recorded. Also the welcoming Latin oration by Edward K. Rand '94. Pope Professor of Latin, and the address by Samuel E. Morison '08, professor of History have been preserved for posterity, along with other talks of major importance...
Even so, Alf Landon did not lack company. Riding along in Massachusetts he talked to Rev. Dr. Frank Buchman, leader of the Oxford Group (TIME, April 20, et seq.). Dr. Buchman discussed God and politics. When Governor Landon stepped out to address a crowd at Pittsfield, he had to show that he was on speaking terms with God. Said...
...loops, shaped like the profile of a Parker House roll. The track winds through 16 turns all within clear view of the grandstand crowd. Most elaborate plant of its kind in the world, the Raceway cost $1,000,000, which its first race may pay back. An enormous public address system will inform the crowd what is happening as cars roll around the rolls. Stands and infield will hold 160,000 spectators, which Roosevelt Raceway hopes to draw twice a year hereafter, on Independence and Columbus Days...
...president of the Association's Zoology Section, Dr. Huxley delivered an address on "Natural Selection and Evolutionary Progress." Natural selection has been subject to much criticism because it does not account for all aspects of evolution and because Darwin gave no emphasis to mutations (sudden changes in the germ plasm). Biologist Huxley sides neither with those who would explain everything by natural selection, nor with extreme proponents of the mutation theory such as Thomas Hunt Morgan. In the Huxley view the two factors complement each other. But: "Natural selection, in fact, though like the mills of God in grinding...
Eleven undergraduate extra-curricular activity leaders will address all new Freshmen at a reception being held in Philips Brooks House this evening at 7.30 o'clock. These men will explain the ins and outs of such organizations as the Student Council, the CRIMSON, and football managerships. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the speaking...