Word: heart
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Seymour, the first speaker for Harvard, commenced by saying that we undoubtedly need a merchant marine and a naval reserve. Subsidies, however, do not strike at the heart of the matter; they do not account for and remedy the differences in cost of constructing, operating and repairing ships under the American flag and under foreign flags. Even did subsidies offset these disadvantages, it would be at an unjustifiably enormous expense. Moreover, subsidies are a bad business and economic proportion, for they are only temporary and do not adapt themselves to changes in economic conditions, for there is no relation between...
There are four ways of delivering a lecture: reading from a manuscript, a proceeding sometimes entertaining but never thrilling; learning by heart, which is seldom more successful; the combination of the two, so often heard in pulpits and meetings, called speaking from notes; and the true, natural way which involves thorough preparation of the subject, without foreknowledge of the words in which it is to be delivered. Then the lecturer if he is clever gives the impression of talking casually but very well, and of having something on his mind which he wishes to impress upon his audience...
Henry Augustus Torrey Ph.D.'96 assistant professor of chemistry, died very suddenly of heart failure at his Cambridge home yesterday afternoon. The funeral arrangements have not yet been made...
Professor Morris Hicky Morgan '81, professor of classical philology and marshal of the University, died at Newport, R. I., at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. The cause of his death was heart failure brought on by an attack of pneumonia. His death came as a shock, for it had been believed that he was rapidly recovering. The funeral services will be held in Appleton Chapel tomorrow at 1 o'clock. The Rt. Rev. William Lawrence '71, Bishop of Massachusetts, will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Prescott, Evarts '87, rector of Christ Church, Cambridge. All lectures and recitations in Cambridge departments...
...friend and colleague he was sincere and devoted, always ready to assume his share or even more than his share of the work, sympathetic to the last degree, and, though at times in manner somewhat brusque, at heart ever the kindest and gentlest of companions. His death is a serious loss to the University