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...floor hosts and hostesses will be: Professor and Mrs. H. N. Davis, Professor and Mrs. G. D. Birkhoff, Professor and Mrs. E. V. Huntington, Professor and Mrs. J. H. Ropes, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Luce, Professor and Mrs. W. E. Hocking, Professor and Mrs. C. I. Lewis, Professor and Mrs. E. C. Boring, and Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Pfeiffer...
...patronesses for the Harvard-Yale dance at the Union on the night of November 18 was announced last night by the Graduate Secretaries of the Union. Mrs. Matthew Luce will head the group of ladies in the receiving line, and will have as her assistant Mrs. G. D. Birkhoff...
...Ames; Mrs. Robert F. Bacon; Mrs. John Barbee; Mrs. George Birkhoff; Mrs. Philip Chase; Mrs. Robert W. Emmons; Mrs. Robert H. Hallowell; Mrs. Joseph Hamlen: Mrs. M. A. de W. Howe: Mrs. James Jackson: Mrs. Matthew Luce; Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell: Mrs. Frederick Lyman: Mrs. Ronald T. Lyman; Mrs. Roger B. Merriman: Mrs. Joseph Morrill; Mrs. Guy Murchie: Mrs. Edward Page: Mrs. Charles Pratt: Mrs. Frederick Pope; Mrs. F. L. W. Richardson; Mrs. Robert Saltonstall; Mrs. John B. Swann: Mrs. Robert G. Shaw; Mrs. Chester A Wardwell; Mrs. Joseph Warren; Mrs. Ridley Watts; Mrs. Charles F. Weed; Mrs. Moses Williams...
...Government by Professor A. N. Holcombe '06; the History of Political Theory by Professor C. H. McHwain '03; American Colonial History and New Points of View in American History by Professor M. W. Jernegan of the University of Chicago; the Foundations of Geometry and Relativity by Professor George D. Birkhoff '04; and Present Philosophical Tendencies by Professor Edward G. Spaulding of Princeton...
Professor Birkhoff won the honor for his Vice-Presidential address before the mathematics section of the Association, entitled "A Mathematical Critique of Some Physical Theories." With the announcement of the award, Professor Birkhoff sent a telegraphic explanation of his paper from Cambridge. Reviewing various physical theories, it pointed out some of the logical defects inherent in them. It stated...