Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture of former President Coolidge, which will be taken at his home in Northampton, will be followed by others of historical and personal interest...
...Massachusetts" film, the University Film Foundation is also the producer of the celluloid record of University life as made for the Harvard Alumni Association. Recent announcement of a similar work, to be carried on by Pathe under the direction of K. F. Mather, professor of Geology here, is of interest in the consideration of all the educational film production being carried on about the University...
Heavily in debt last week was Albert Bacon Fall, bribe-taking Secretary of the Interior under President Harding, first convicted Cabinet felon in U. S. history. He still owed Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny $100,000 (exclusive of interest) on what he still insists was "a friendly loan" made eight years ago. He owed the U. S. another $100,000-the fine imposed last week after a District of Columbia Supreme Court jury had found the Doheny "loan" corrupt, a bribe. Additional debt to the U. S.: one year of his life in prison. Mr. Fall's assets, both...
...diplomacy. Chinese Chief Delegate David Z. T. Yui took the Instituters at their word last week. At the first session, before formalities were even disposed of, he leaped up and shrilly accused Japan of using murder as an instrument of national policy. This accusation should have had special interest for John D. Rockefeller III. He had dined a few days before with the son of the murdered Chinaman in question...
...mechanistic] theory is . . . bankrupt. It has, in fact, ceased to interest physiologists in recent times. . . . One often meets the statement . . . that scientific physiology is progressively revealing the mechanism of life. In the light of actual progress this is quite untrue, and can only be described as claptrap. . . . Science brings us to a point at which we require more than Science." Biologist Haldane takes philosophy seriously. To him, philosophy is only another word for religion. But orthodox religion will not find much in common with such statements as this: "Belief of any kind in what is supernatural seems...