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Arthur Brisbane commented on the univesity's refusal as follows: "Eugenics at present is more guesswork than science. Ninety per cent of the alumni will approve the action of the Harvard trusiees. If in John Harvard's day somebody had offered a legacy to develop the possibility of getting power out of boiling water, or harnessing lightning, they would have rejected it with general approval. Fifty years ago if anyone had offered Harvard $1,000,000 for the study of flying he would have been told, 'You must not make this great unversity ridiculous.' Eugenics in days to come will...
...following extracts are taken from an article which appears in the current Alumni Bulletin dealing with the purchasing of supplies for the University. The article was written by W. G. Morse '99, purchasing agent for the University...
Before Harvard University had broadened its representative membership by making direct efforts to attract men from the south and west its government was, and very properly, largely in the hands of New England alumni. Close association with the center of activity was considered a necessity for election to the Board of Overseers: and since comparatively few candidates lived in places far from Cambridge there arose a custom which has been followed with more or less regularity of selecting prominent graduates in either Boston or New York for the offices. Recent elections have shown that this tradition is still an active...
This removal of emphasis from the local to the national certainly must affect the alumni representation which governs Harvard. In the current Alumni Bulletin Mr. N. H. Batchelder pleads for a more inclusive delegation to comprise the Overseers. His impetus was Mr. Owen Wister's suggestion, made last year, that all the candidates be drawn from the near vicinity of Cambridge. With this Mr. Batchelder disagrees, basing his opinion on the fact that such a group would give no indication of Harvard's national character...
...Batchelder realizes the difficulty of combining active cooperation between alumni and faculty with non-residents. To obviate this he proposes quarterly meetings for the entire assemblage and also monthly meetings for Boston members, the latter covering the details and routine. This and an enlargement of the Board by the addition to each class of Overseers of two appointed members, making the total forty-two instead of thirty, would allow for increase in the national representation, without decreasing the efficiency of the organization...