Word: norton
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...article published by the Stanford Illustrated Review J. K. Norton, one of the Leland Stanford University hurdlers who was such a noteworthy competitor in the Intercollegiate Track Meet of last May, records his impressions of Harvard. A distinction which he draws in regard to the democracy found at the two universities is a little misleading. "The spirit of easy democracy," he says, "is absent at Harvard. . . . and the air of general familiarity that exists at Stanford is absent on the Harvard Yard...
Various of Mr. Norton's other remarks, inaccurate because founded on observations that were necessarily hasty and incomplete, are so amusing as to lose much of their sting. We are surprised to learn for example that "the touch of tradition holds sway, appearing at every turn." Tradition preserves the old and uncomfortable classroom benches and plank desks of a former age instead of replacing them with up-to-date equipment." And again: "The rickety old dormitories of a former century are kept unchanged, a tablet on the door of each room telling who has occupied the room for the past...
Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Charles Eliot Norton were among the other who at the time of their death willed their own volumes to the College Library. The addition of Professor Muensterberg's books will help to increase the size of that collection which increases in historical importance as years pass. President Lowell's acceptance of the gift represents the feeling of gratitude felt by both students and Faculty. Far better than bronze or stone, it will be a living memorial to Professor Muensterberg's quarter of a century of faithful effort and accomplishment...
...Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps--G. C. Caner '17, J. O. Herrick '20, and K. M. Knox '18. R. A. Drake '19 and J. K. T. Philips '17 sailed ten days ago on the Espagne. Several other men are awaiting developments in the international crisis before sailing...
Although fourteen undergraduate volunteers went to France to work in the Harjes Ambulance Corps, the official representative of the American-Red-Cross in France, today there is an even more crying need for volunteers. Combined with the Harjes Unit is that conducted by Richard Norton '92 and that conducted by H. C. Hoskier, Father of R. W. Hoskier '18, who is flying in the French Aviation Service. These three sections combined together, while not as large as the American Ambulance, are at present striving to do America's part at the front. The work in this unit has an especial...