Word: edward
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Recently the editors of a well-known magazine compiled a list of college graduates who had made a notable success in the world. They asked these men to tell what studies had best trained them for future life. Stewart Edward White wrote in answer "What I studied in college I don't remember, but I do remember the men who taught...
...funeral services for Professor Edward Charles Pickering, director of the University Observatory and renowned astronomer, who died at his home Monday evening after a brief illness, will be held at Appleton Chapel this afternoon at 1 o'clock. The service will be conducted by the Rev. Joel Hastings Metcalf of Winchester, an astronomer and life-long friend of Professor Pickering. Among the honorary pall bearers will be President Charles W. Eliot, and Professors C. R. Cross, G. P. Bowditch '63, and Elihu Thomson...
...believe that the time will ever come when civilized nations will arbitrate what part of their population shall die," said Professor Edward Warren at the Law School reception last night. Professor Warren said that although he had the highest hope in the League of Nations yet the laws of evolution and the Malthusian theory present an almost impossible problem. He thought that to substitute "the force of law" for the "law of force" would "tax human ingenuity to the utmost." Yet he believed that in time the race might overcome more of its primeval instincts as it had conquered some...
...unexpected announcement of Professor Edward C. Pickering's death," said Professor Bailey, "brought instant response. Campbell, Director of the Lick Observatory, telegraphed, 'A great, unselfish man has gone. Our flag is at half-mast,' Hale, Director of the Solar Observatory, Mt. Wilson, 'Am greatly shocked and grieved, and hasten to send sincere sympathy.' Klotz, Director of the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa. 'The world has lost one of its great astronomical lights, and deans of science.' Plaskett, Director of the new Canadian Observatory, at Victoria, 'The news came to Mrs. Plaskett and me as a great shock and deep personal loss...
...stars shone with their usual brilliancy last night, but he who had made it his life work to learn the meaning of their varying light was not watching. Rather after spending long years in trying to unfathom the mysteries of the heavens, Professor Edward C. Pickering beheld the skies in their elemental simplicity. Harvard mourns the loss of this great man. The wide recognition which he had obtained indicates the debt the University owes...