Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alumni Day, tomorrow, sees the most ambitious gathering of the Associated Harvard Clubs since their organization in 1897. Highlights on the morning's programme in the Tercentenary Theatre include an address by President Conant, presentation of the student viewpoint in three speeches by undergraduates, and a roll call and election of Glubs officers...
...influence of the nervous system on our behavior was discussed in the opening address by Professor Adrian, who is a Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, was co-winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1932, and established the important "all-or-none" law of nervous reaction. This law states that the intensity of sensation depends on a factor inherent in the nerve itself, and not on the strength of the stimulus...
Rudolf Carnap, leader of the so-called "Vienna Circle" of logical positivists, outlined the three requirements of logical thinking as clarity, consistency and adequate evidence. In an address entitled simply "Logic," he pointed out that a statement which may appear to be an assertion is often only a command or a volitive expression...
...Functionalism" is a name which anthropologists immediately connect with Bronisiaw Malinowski, anthropologist of the University of London, the last speaker of this symposium, whose address was on the subject of "Culture as a Determinant of Behavior." The term represents a concept of a many-sided functioning as a unit, with all its customs and traditions interrelated. Malinowski observed just such a functional society during a very close study of the Trobriand Indians of Melanesia, and by giving bird's eye views of the culture of the Masal tribes of Africa, the Chagga, also of Africa, the Esquimaux, and the Trobrianders...
Regarding the article "Churchill-to-Europe," p. 26, TIME, Aug. 17, the writer is interested in knowing more about passenger accommodations out of this port. Would you kindly forward address to which I may write for more detailed information. Thanking...