Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...statement in Friday's CRIMSON that my recent appointment as Professor of Mechanics came as "a reward for many years' service on the University teaching staff" betrays a lamentable misconception on the part of your reporter. Professorships at Harvard are not handed out as "rewards" for past services; they are contracts for services to be rendered in the future. Any intimation that a professorship is "awarded" like a service medal or an honorary degree conveys an entirely false impression of the responsibilities involved in university teaching. EDWARD V. HUNTINGTON...
...There is need of more than physical service for our Commonwealth in time of disorder. Harvard will lead the way, as she has many times in the past, and mould a public opinion that will make impossible a recurrence of riot and anarchy in this state...
...Mercier to the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Our generation and the countless once to come can never succeed in making it what it was; all any of us can do is to make some effort towards restoring, if only to a small degree, the glory of its past. With the appointment of an Executive Committee, whose headquarters will be J. P. Morgan & Co., New York, a nation-wide movement for the achievement of this purpose has begun. This body has issued a statement which comes at a singularly apropos time for those who had the distinction of seeing...
...University, in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, Thursday evening, at 7.15 o'clock. His subject will be "The Spirit of Modern Missions and Reconstruction Work." In his talk Mr. Clark will explain the great changes which have taken place in the purpose of the missionary movement during the past 25 years, and will show the broad nature of the work performed by missions overseas and the great tasks to be accomplished in reconstruction work...
...termed either oversight or ignorance--Heaven forfend the latter--on the part of some members of the Editorial Board. Surely, when it is suggested that a restaurant be inaugurated by the Harvard Dining Association at which tabloid foods shall be dispensed, something out of the distant, or less distant past has been forgotten. Why start a new restaurant? The dining Halls have always favored us with considerable food, the construction of which should meet, with the approval of the most fastidious synthesist; and examples are not difficult to discover. Take scrambled eggs, for instance, Has everyone forgotten the fearfully...