Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...research work in quantum mechanics, to be carried on in Europe, a fellowship has been given to J. C. Slater, assistant professor of Physics. Professor Slater has already done much work in this field...
...first place, we let it be known that in Germany a book of diagrams was being published which, if obtained, would prove of great value to the student both in making his work in sociology considerably clearer and in enabling him to get very much better marks in his examinations. One could obtain this book, we said, only through our department, by sending us a certain sum of money...
...Thus we put before these Minnesota men three different causes, all equally worthy of their contribution, and waited to see what would be the result of our various appeals without much doubt, however, as to the final outcome. Needless to say, while the cause of the homeless Michigan students was better supported than that of the foreigners, the subscriptions for the German book of diagrams which could be used to personal advantage only, were vastly greater than those for either of the other causes. Thus we proved that as social distance increases, readiness to help others decreases, while...
...foreign relations, the solid economic and political significance of tolerance and understanding are too often underestimated. On this latter ground the fanfare of student voyages, international Schools, and even the schoolboy correspondence in French, find a justification. Meanwhile the position occupied by Harvard in foreign eyes, offers to a much greater degree the opportunity for utilizing such contact. With this in mind the University should take a certain pride in playing a part, even if subordinate to the local Rotary Club...
What was more, the stock was kept so much at home in this old Presbyterian family that until recently Phelps Dodge has remained practically a closed corporation. Few copper stocks have had the advantage of such respectable and exclusive upbringing. Cleveland Hoadley Dodge (Princeton classmate of Woodrow Wilson), was interested not only in copper; he became president of the board of trustees of Robert College, Constantinople. His twin sons have divided between them his interests in copper and oriental education: Cleveland E. is vice-president of Phelp? Dodge; Bayard is president of the American University of Beirut, Syria.† Executive...