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...furthest reaches of medicine could not keep pneumonia two years ago from striking at the wife of Lucius Nathan Littauer, wealthy glove manufacturer of Gloversville, N. Y. (onetime, 1897-1907, Republican congressman from New York), from filling her lungs until gasping, coma-stricken, she died. Mr. Littauer, like many another grief-stricken man,* resolved to aid medical science in uncovering knowledge that might have prevented her death. So last week he gave $5,000 to New York University for the study and cure of pneumonia, and promised to give another like amount every six months...
George Binney (leader of the 1924 Oxford arctic flight, holder of the furthest north flying record-N. L. 80 deg., 15 min.) : "He will stroll back to Europe, I have little doubt...
Harvard indifference, of which people pretend to be proud, has gone to the furthest limits has sunk to the lowest depths it could possibly reach. To think that the first of the Big Three games should come off this Saturday and only half the Union hall full! It is a deplorable thing to think that our students who come from the four corners of the globe to share Harvard's scholastic prestige cannot show their support and admiration of that team which sat so woefully, yes, I even dare say, disgusted, on the platform...
...strong for religion," continued Professor Holmes, "and I resent attacks against sectarian schools. Teachers should have some responsibility over religion. When a man takes up the profession of teaching he devotes his life to the general betterment of his pupils. He becomes fundamentally interested in advancing man to his furthest ends. Religion is undoubtedly so closely connected with this purpose, that a teacher, in order to achieve his end, really must teach...
...always there is a reverse to the medal. To Harvard men and to some few others at least, Harvard indifference is really Harvard manifoldness or Harvard individualism a philosophy of live and let live, freedom of thought and speech and action carried to the furthest reasonable limit. And so those who believe in Harvard and its ideals make a virtue out of the very thing which the critics paint as the darkest vice...