Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...establishment of a uniform minor sport award the Harvard Athletic Committee at its last meeting also took action on the question. A committee of three Seniors, composed of A. S. Woodworth '29, chairman, A. E. French '29, and Hulburd Johnson '29 was appointed to look into the matter and report to the committee at its June meeting. An effort will be made to sound out the undergraduate feeling and find the best possible solution...
...Harvard scientific authorities, most of them from the Graduate School of Business Administration, were among the hundreds of economists, educators, engineers, and others who assisted in extensive researches lasting over a year which resulted in the publishing of the survey of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the report of the Committee on Recent Economic Changes based upon it under the title of "Recent Economic Changes...
...Professor of Economic History, as one of the research directors of the National Bureau, led in the extensive investigation conducted in behalf of the committee and his observations are published in the introductory chapter of the report...
...pity that no report of it hangs in Memorial Hall. But he would never allow a portrait of himself to be drawn. Into his personality strangers must not intrude. Venturing once to try for memoranda of his face, I took an artist to his room. The courtesy of Sophocles was too stately to allow him to turn my friend away, but he seated himself in a shaded window, and kept his head in constant motion. When my frustrated friend had departed, Sophocles told me, though without direct reproach, of two sketches which had before been surreptiously made...
...when a violent attack of illness fell on him, a physician was called for diagnosis. He felt the pulse, he examined the tongue, he heard the report of the symptoms, then suddenly asked, "How old are you, Mr. Sophocles?" With a ready presence of mind and as pretty ingenuity as if he were not lying at the point of death, Sophocles answered: "The Arabs, Dr. W., estimate age by several standards. The age of Hassan, the porter, is reckoned by his wrinkles; that of Abdallah, the physician, by the lives he has saved; that of Achmet, the sage...