Word: locals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their permanence; a Harvard Legion would have a transient membership. Then, too, we doubt the interest which the average student, occupied with many other activities, would take in such a branch organization. Let us support, the American Legion by all means, but let us support the founding of permanent local posts rather than create subordinate branches in the colleges...
...formation and its union with the National Legion. As a result of the recent convention at St. Louis, the plans for the organization of an American Legion of all men who have been in the service of the United States during the World War is well under way, and local branches are being formed in every state. A Massachusetts executive committee has been appointed, and is now completing its organization. It seems to me that a 'Harvard Legion,' of the many members of the University who took part in the war, should be formed at once, in conjunction with...
Elmer P. Kohler, professor of chemistry at the University, and Arthur A. Noyes, director of the Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry at M. I. T., are the local representatives on the Research Fellowship Board of the National Research Council, the personnel of which has just been announced. The board is to have administration of a plan under which the Rockefeller Foundation has undertaken to co-operate with the Council in the promotion of fundamental research in physics and chemistry. The Foundation is to appropriate $500,000 to support research fellowships...
Statistics of the College show that each year over half of the total enrolment is made up of Massachusetts men and a very large percent of the men are from New England. Unless Harvard wishes to become a "local university" she must exert some effort to induce more Westerners and Southerners to come to her doors...
Princeton has already taken extensive precautions against becoming a "local university". Harvard should adopt similar measures. The diffusing of information among Western and Southern schools apropos to the requirements for admission and departments of the University; creating better facilities for men of those schools to take the entrance examinations; establishing regional scholarships;--all would tend to direct large numbers of men to Harvard which would benefit both the men and the University. No one will deny that the academic side of Harvard is the apotheosis of all educational institutions. Why, then, should the other equally important side of a college...