Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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However, the present totals, though encouraging, are nevertheless misleading, for the donations to date represent only 15 per cent. of the fund "prospects" from the Greater Boston District. This means that there are still 9000 men in the district who have not yet been called on, considerable delay having been caused by incomplete address lists. As a result, it has been announced by Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, chairman of the local committee, that the campaign will continue in Boston until every alumnus in the district has been called upon. This probably means several weeks longer, at the least...
...years in Harvard's curriculum. Professor Taussing was the second man to give a course in economics at Harvard College; since the time he began, the introductory course has grown to a membership of several hundred, and a whole department has been built up. The science of economics is still very young. One of its points about which controversy has raged--the quantity theory of money--Professor Roorbach is peculiarly fitted to speak on, because of his research work on this subject in Argentina...
...impossible to secure evidence or apprehend the offender it is a reflection on the Omaha officials, and they should be replaced; but this I can scarcely believe. The alternative is that no such attacks occurred, and they have been merely alleged. At all events, it still rests with the accusers to produce the evidence and the facts to substantiate their claims; this has not been done. In the case of the one negro convicted, there seems to be an absurdity in the proportion of his sentence to the alleged crime. If he is guilty of three attacks on women...
Through the courtesy of President Lowell and Dean Greenough, permission has been cordially given to me as Commanding Officer of the Newton Constabulary, Massachusetts State Guard, to invite Harvard men to join our organization in order to render aid to the State in the emergency which still exists and which will doubtless continue for a moderate period to come...
...honor to a great hero of the great war, whose victories are not of a military but of a saintly order; by profession an ecclesiastic, by temperament a scholar, by force of circumstances and of his own character a statesman. Early attracted by the scholastic philosophy he created when still young the Institute of Philosophy at Louvain, and possessing the strenuous industry of a scholar he took as his motto "Labor as a good soldier of Christ." His philosophic system comprehended the thought of all ages and the discoveries of modern psychology; and his fame, with that of all ages...