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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Voted, That the Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association shall appoint a committee of 15 of the alumni of Harvard University, to be known as the "Harvard Endowment Fund Committee." The duty of this committee shall be to organize the alumni for the solicitation of contributions to said fund and to solicit funds therefor...
Captain Cordier, when interviewed respecting the relief of Captain Bjornstad from duty in the Department of Military Science and Tactics, said...
...course of an address before the National Collegiate Athletic Association on December 29th Dean Briggs said: "There may be reasons why the athletic coach should not receive three times as much as a professor of Greek, but there is no reason why he should not hold a position of equal dignity." Athletics and studies are too often regarded as competitive rather than complementary, to the detriment of each. As a result few athletes find time to do justice to their scholastic work, while on the other hand the most brilliant students are frequently forced to neglect their physical well-being...
...Piper, who was first discovered by Professor William James and others of equal importance. The various records of psychic phenomena which Dr. Hyslop set before the meeting revealed in a most interesting manner the basis for his belief that streams of consciousness survive the body. "I believe," said the noted psychologist in concluding, "that you cannot prove the existence of God without proving immortality of the soul." After his address Professor Hyslop answered all questions which anyone wished...
Much has been written and said attacking democracy because of its inefficiency. While this unfortunate quality can never be entirely eradicated from democratic systems, yet the calling into service of real experts should so diminish it as to make this fault negligible. The Naval Advisory Board is accomplishing what a body of mere seamen cannot do, for such men as Edison in dealing with perplexing questions have a breadth of vision which no admiral could ever possess...