Word: statement
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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...
...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 the Cardinal: "As a tribute to his personal heroism during the war, this committee hopes to be able to assure Cardinal Mercier, before he returns to Belgium, that the fund has been completed...
...information of y our editorial writer, who in Wednesday morning's editorial, makes the statement that "Canada is making somewhat tardy retribution" and "The pay of a Canadian solder during the war cannot be compared to that of a Yankee doughboy", the daily rate of pay of the common or garden variety of "buck" privates in the United States and various British "Colonial" armies is given below...
...good as at the date of discharge or at the expiration of the grace period, whichever is the later date) will be accepted. If the application is not made within the prescribed time limit, however, the formal report of examination made by a reputable physician must accompany the statement of the insured concerning his health...
...Affiliation with the American Federation of Labor is the right of any red-blooded American citizen." This statement coming, as it does, from one of our instructors and a specialist on such matters, is worthy of the serious attention of all members of the University. Is Mr. Laski sure this statement applies to everyone? Or does it exclude such people as soldiers and sailors, and other employees of the executive branch of government...