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...optimistic to expect that it might be judiciously applied to the former. With 23,000 scientific periodicals published in the world annually, "the mind stands appalled at the prospects . . .even in so short a time as 100 years hence." Idle Rich. The economics division was addressed by distinguished Sir Josiah Stamp, co-author of the Dawes Plan anent the "idle" rich. Sir Josiah doubted that this much maligned class of British society numbered over 1,000 able-bodied persons. He demonstrated that if all British incomes from ?250 ($1217. 50) upward were pooled, the income per family would not exceed...
...Josiah Henson, prototype of Uncle Tom of Uncle Tom's Cabin, was received by Queen Victoria...
...Dawes sometime ago put the question of the advisability of the Haugen bill to an English economist, Sir Josiah Stamp. Sir Josiah approved it, and lately Mr. Dawes has been sitting in at the conferences of the supporters of the Haugen bill. In fact the bill, originally called the Haugen bill from the chairman of the House Committee of Agriculture, and then the McNary-Haugen bill, adding the name of the sponsor of the bill in the Senate, was last week dubbed by its opponents the Dawes-McNary-Haugen bill...
...when the Philosophy Department wanted Professor Josiah Royce to come to Harvard, there was no money available to bring him. So Professor Palmer, who was Chairman of the Department, took a sabbatical year and generously gave half of his own salary to pay that of Royce. In the following year William James took his sabbatical under the same conditions. And that was how the great Professor Royce was brought to Cambridge. The splendid teacher, the fine scholar, the able professor like Josiah Royce is hard to find. But Harvard must always seek to find him, and be prepared financially...
Today has also been set as the closing date by three other committees. All compositions for the Francis Boott Prize must be handed in today as well as all applications for the Josiah Dwight Whitney Scholarships...