Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Began President Conant: "An eventful and significant epoch in Harvard history has closed." That epoch dated back to 1909 when Charles William Eliot turned over to President Lowell a Harvard faculty unrivaled in intellectual prestige. Under the ambitious, Aladdin-like administration of President Lowell Harvard grew big and rich. Its faculty swelled from 600 to 1,692, its student body from 4,000 to 8,000, its endowment from $20,000,000 to $126,000,000. New buildings mushroomed-libraries, dormitories, museums, laboratories. On the human side, President Lowell's heart was with his undergraduates and he wanted...
...establishment of the Freshman dormitories, and finally by the inauguration of the House Plan. The whole University has felt the dominating personality of the President and rejoiced in the free and vigorous intellectual atmosphere which his firm stand insured even in times of great stress. An eventful and significant epoch in Harvard History has closed. We who inherit the fruits of his labors unite in wishing President Lowell a long life and much happiness in the well-earned rest of his retirement...
...play its name. Says he: "The dairymaid fears confiscation of her cow; the peasant, forcible collectivization; the Soviet worker, perpetual purging of the Party; the political worker, the accusation of lukewarmness; the scientific worker, the accusation of idealism; the technical worker, the accusation of sabotage. "We live in an epoch of great fear. Fear forces the talented intelligentsia to deny their mother ... to falsify their social origin. . . . Man is becoming suspicious, secretive, disloyal, slovenly, unprincipled. Fear breeds idleness, train delays, interrupted production, general poverty and hunger. No one does anything without orders, without reference to the blackboard, without threat...
...James by one Henry Bamford Parkes. Mr. Parkes makes no new contribution to the criticism of James, but his essay is a competent restatement of the master's position in modern thought. It will be remembered that Professor Whitehead called James, like Descartes, the founder of a new philosophical epoch--with this statement Mr. Parkes takes issue, on the ground that his philosophy "contains too obviously the seeds of its own dissolution." Statements of this kind are very difficult to analyze or to assess; it would perhaps be more correct to say that James' philosophy was a philosophy noble only...
...ARMY MEDICAL COLLEGE BRILLIANTLY CONCLUSIVE RESEARCH ON ENCEPHALOMYELITIS AFFECTING HORSES. WAS LAUDED IN 1927 BY GOVERNOR GENERAL LEONARD WOOD AND SURGEON GENERAL IRELAND FOR HEROIC VETERINARY SERVICE IN PHILIPPINES WHERE HIS RESEARCHES BROUGHT ABOUT CONTROL OF RINDERPEST EPIZOOTIC LYMPHANGITIS AND SURGEON GENERAL IRELAND OFFICIALLY REFERRED TO THIS SERVICE AS EPOCH MAKING. VETERINARY PROFESSION IS PROUD OF MAJOR KELSER...