Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impossible to enumerate here all the work the Council has accomplished during the year. There are, however, certain things that deserve special mention. "The Harvard University Register" was published in a form even more complete than last year. The Committee on Organizations has organized a Federation of Territorial Clubs, which is doing excellent work, and is now getting out an attractive book, descriptive of the University, to send to Preparatory Schools throughout the country...
Evolution. In tracing the roots of modern physics, the authors found il necessary to go back to Galileo and Newton, and even to mention Aristotle. The great Greek philosopher, whose shadow dominated scholastic thought in Medieval Europe, declared that a continuous push had to be exerted on a body to keep it in motion. Galileo, who shocked cloistered thinkers by making uncouth experiments, concluded that this was not so-that if a moving body was not acted upon by any forces it would continue in uniform motion indefinitely. This was one of the laws formulated by Newton a generation later...
...omit any mention of the Harvard Russian Circle? Surely there is some news-value in the fact that he spoke under the auspices of the Harvard Russian Circle, a non-political organization for the study and appreciation of Russian history and culture. I should think that you might even consider newsworthy the fact that there are at Harvard enough people with a non-political interest in Russia to form such a club. Sincerely yours, Jeffrey Fuller '38, President, The Harvard Russian Circle...
...recommendation of a Student Committee on Curriculum, perhaps it is most charitable to reserve comment until this proposal is put into comprehensible form. As it stands, it appears entirely vague, unworkable, and unrepresentative. No mention is made of how the students who are to gather undergraduate opinion will be chosen. Apparently they are to be picked with the advice of departmental chairmen, yet undergraduates will have the right of final decision. Does this mean another convention? In addition, these students are "to be chosen first on the basis of intellectual ability; this would assure no warping of judgment...
Lupien was named guard on the second five, while four other Varsity men gained honorable mention. Charlie Lutz received three votes, John Herrick two, and Captain Vernon Struck and George Lowman one apiece...