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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...House when he highly entertained the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations with his exposition of the first unalterable constitution of the League of Nations. Later he stated that those men, chosen by the American people to represent them, had pygmy minds and that they should be hanged head down higher than was. Haman hanged...
...Medical School after the second day of the year is as follows: first year men, 109; second year men, 83; third year men, 100; fourth year men, 102. It is expected that more men will enter both first and third year courses. The registration total of 394 is higher than the School has known for many years. Last year's enrolment was 375 and that of the year before, only...
...should not be permitted utmost liberty of speech in institutions sustained by public or private funds. The organic law does not contemplate the surrender of the right of free speech by men in public institutions, but its right interpretation does place on all such men a higher that ordinary responsibility to the Government and the people. The wings of thought are not to be clipped by rules or conventions, nor crippled by traditions, but speech, the sovereign vehicle of thought, must be curbed properly if the destiny of the nation is to be worked out along lines designed...
...mark which we set," said Mr. Wadsworth, "was $10,000,000; this amount was the estimate of the Harvard Endowment Fund Committee which was appointed in 1916. This seemed large at the time and was based upon the needs of the institution at the time for increased equipment and higher remuneration for the teaching staff. America entered the war, however, within a short time and the plans were dropped until last spring. When the Committee began work again, the first step was a full study of the University. This investigation was made by members of the Committee and graduates during...
...needs of Harvard are proportionate to its size and prominence among the educational institutions of America. Never, authorities agree, were the demands for highly trained minds greater, and never were the costs of this important production higher. Changed conditions--industrial financial and commercial--of the last five years create this demand. The changes have increased the cost in every department of university administration, as they have in all other phases of American life...