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Open this season to all men, in addition to those taking Professor Thorndike's seminar, the James lectures are an institutions of over 10 year's standing. Originally they were established by a bequest of Edgar Pierce '06, and have been presented annually since then, always on some subject within the fields of philosophy or psychology...
President Roosevelt last week took a personal hand in one of the knottiest problems that had ever plagued a bequest-hungry U.S. art museum. He asked Congress for $195,000 so that Washington's palatial new National Gallery could get its latest rich bequest-that of Philadelphia's late Peter Arrell Brown Widener-out of hock. The money was owed for a Pennsylvania gift tax which the Widener will laid on the beneficiary...
Until Evahgeline Birkenhead's advent, Teddy's amative life had been in part fanciful, in part optical, in part under suburban hedges ("Starp it, I tell you!"), entirely virginal. When Teddy surprisingly received a comfortable bequest, Miss Birkenhead beat Miss Blame in the race for Hero Tewler. The seduction, marriage and sexual initiation, cruel but convincing, are brightened only by a dandified best man who neighs a stentorian Hey! before every brontosaurian innuendo...
These fellowships, giving freedom to travel and study as the recipient chooses, are among the highest academic honors at Harvard, and were established in 1909 by the bequest of Mrs. Amey Richmond Sheldon, in memory of her husband, a member of the Harvard Class...
While the present group is pretty much of a pioneering venture it may well end up as a real contribution to college thought and study. As specified in the bequest of money, "college students' greatest job in the present emergency is to use their education to understand the world they live in." This is the first real opening for such a non-partisan study that has appeared...