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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Todd Costello, A.M. '10, Ph. D. '11, now Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College, Hartford, has been appointed Lecturer on Philosophy for the second half of the present academic year, it has been announced by University Hall. George Babcock Cressey, Ph. D. in Geology at the University of Chicago in 1923 and since then Professor of Geology at Shanghai College, Shanghai, China, is spending his sabbatical year at Harvard, and working as Research Fellow in Geology...
Three Harvard professors have been voted leaves of absence. Dean Hector J. Hughes '94, of the Harvard Engineering School will be on sabbatical leave during the second half of 1929-30. Professor H. E. Clifford '89, has been named as Acting Dean of the School of Engineering during Dean Hughes' absence. Byron Satterlee Hurlbut '87, professor of English, will be absent during the second half of 1929-30, on sabbatical leave. Professor Richmond Laurin Hawkins '03, of the Department of French, was granted leave of absence during the academic year...
John Franklin Ebersole, A.M. '09, at present economic advisor and chief of the section of Financial and Economic Research in the Treasury Department, is coming to Cambridge in January to lecture throughout the next half year at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, it was announced at University Hall. He will told the position of Professor of Finance...
Some explanation other than the too easy one of undergraduate inertia must be found for the fact that fewer than one-half the men eligible voted in the Senior elections held last Wednesday. Granted that the present generation at Harvard has putgrown any yearning for strenuous political activity, there has nevertheless existed, even in recent year, much more interest in the choosing of class-officers than was manifested by the Class of 1930. The chief reason for the slight vote is rather to be found in the range of polling places and of time for voting. There are two alternatives...
Last year the Bureau was maintained throughout most of the second half-year, without being much employed, Such an experiment could well be repeated, but its value depends entirely on the consent of the tutees. In teaching while there is still time to learn, the organization should be useful and stimulating; but the accurate compilation of spot passages is, properly, outside its sphere, and the man who aims merely at passing examinations will find it of little...