Word: branches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gives the John Cadwallader Grimshaw Dormitory or the Grimshaw Laboratory; or he establishes the Grimshaw Scholarships; or perhaps, being interested in some special branch of study, he establishes the Grimshaw Research Fund, hoping that he may thus make possible some discovery which will be connected, however vaguely, with his name. Possibly, he attaches to the gift, not his own name, but his father's or his wife's or his son's, setting up a memorial to someone other than himself. But the principle is the same in each case: the desire for praise and immortality--if only a vicarious...
...Harvard is the first university in the world to make any such effort towards teaching the vital or dynamic side of psychology. Hitherto, all that has been taught and investigated is the static branch of the subject, which has not in itself any essential significanes...
...poll is being directed by a committee of four from the Liberal Club which volunteered to collect, on behalf of the Federation, all available statistics, and whose offer has been accepted by Lewis Fox, the Federation's President. F. V. Field '27 is chairman of the New England branch of the Confederation...
...Harvard that its personnel makes possible a comprehensive approach to the problems a comprehensive approach to the problems of philosophy. This is true in regard to the subject matter involved and the manner in which it is presented. One may study as intensively as he likes any particular branch of philosophy, or his interests may go far afield to India under the guidance of Prof. Woods, or to China with Dr. Mei. With so diverse a possibility of stimulus it would be remarkable if one's intellectual curiosity were not aroused...
Professor W. E. Hocking '01 of the University who is President of the Eastern Branch of the American Philosophical Association, is in charge of the reception of the distinguished guests and will also deliver the address of welcome Professor J. H. Woods '87, also of the University, is head of the Entertainment Committee...