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...must be carried on within the bounds thus created; there can be coordination or overlapping. Fluid funds are the solution. They would make possible research projects which need the cooperation of several fields. An excellent example is the Cabot Foundation for research in plant breeding, which gives Harvard a free hand and thus permits expenditure in several departments, including the Forest, Arnold Arboretum, and the Biological Laboratory. Moreover, unrestricted funds can support scholars, like the proposed University Professors, whose horizon is not limited to a single department, who can extend their activities over a number...
This is not a direct message to undergraduates. But it is necessary for them, as well as for the donors of today, to realize the value of fluid funds if the University is to accomplish its best work. Only if Harvard authorities are given a free hand to water those fields which they regard as most fertile can the produce be maximized...
...Problem of the Meaning of Words," a subject which aroused a storm of comment when it was popularized by Stuart Chase last year, will be the topic of a free, public lecture by Dr. Kurt Goldstein in Emerson Hall at 4.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon...
Ulster*-which became officially Northern Ireland when the rest of the island became the Irish Free State, now Eire-was recently shocked: from London came reports that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had agreed to discuss with Prime Minister Eamon de Valera whether the people of Ulster should now decide by plebiscite whether to remain part of the United Kingdom or join Eire. Last week Ulster was flabbergasted when tall, teacher-ish Eamon de Valera suddenly announced at Dublin that his demands go much beyond a plebiscite...
...free-speech issue is child's play compared to the brass-tack problem of carrying New Jersey for the New Deal, and last week Franklin Roosevelt sent his No. 3 Cabinet officer, Secretary of War Harry Woodring, to Hudson County to do business with Boss Hague. The occasion was a rally for the Senate candidacy of William Harvey Johnson Ely, who has been administering WPA in New Jersey and who, though a Hague protege, has promised to be a 100% New Dealer. Secretary Woodring's business with Boss Hague was to find out whether, in return for continued...