Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which a reader of the CRIMSON might gather, can be illustrated by a quotation of a paragraph from the CRIMSON editorial. "Daily the University is the scene of happenings which affect the outside world. It is false modesty to pretend that the discoveries of Harvard scientists are not of interest to outsiders, that the plans of the oldest and richest university in the country are of no import except to the handful of men who are charged with administering her affairs...
...planning a flight this year. Miss Earhart makes a gratifying income by writing on flying and appearing at aviation shows. Lady Heath also appears professionally at the shows. Recently she started a concern to import planes. Miss Nichols, rich, is now flying about the U. S. to stir interest in aviation country clubs...
...reports on the first quarter of 1929 would be arriving before the 1928 list is complete) public utilities were particularly well represented. Great are utilities and large their earnings, but for some reason the report of (say) Public Service Corp. of New Jersey does not excite as much popular interest as the report of (say) Jordan Motors. When a good Jordan report comes out, everyone gets a mental picture of many a Jordan hastening along the nation's highways, but Public Service Corp. probably suggests only a picture of vague turbines and shadowy dynamos. Yet if popular timepieces recorded kilowatt...
Daily the university is the scene of happenings which affect the outside world. It is false modesty to pretend that the discoveries of Harvard scientists are not of interest to outsiders, that the plans of the oldest and richest university in the country are of no import except to the handful of men who are charged with administering her affairs...
...have read with interest the articles appearing in your columns last week urging certain reforms in the Fogg Museum, and while I am in agreement with the recommendations for library hours, entrances at night, and improvement of the lighting and ventilating systems in this building, I can not but feel that there was in evidence a narrow and selfish spirit in regard to the Radcliffe students...