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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clipping says confidentally that Mr. Russel would probably not be asked to take a chair "held by such men as Professor Palmer and Professor Royce." The implication that Mr. Russell's ability and achievements as a philosopher are slight and not comparable to those of the men whom Harvard has, in the last few years, lost, is too wholly absurd to be taken seriously by anyone who has kept at all abreast of modern philosophic thought. Mr. Russell has established himself so firmly in philosophy that it is not untrue to say that in England today there is a "Russian...
...following schedule of 11 games with a possibility of two more in case of ties with Princeton and the University, has been arranged, and in addition the team will take a Christmas trip to Pittsburg on January 4, 5 and 6, where a series of games will be played with the Pittsburg A. A. hockey team...
...training course is divided into two classes, preliminary and advanced. Together they extend over a period of six months, and entitle those who take the course to a commission as regular officer in the reserve corps. It is necessary to enlist for a period of four years to be able to take this preliminary training, but after receiving the commission only 15 days each year is required...
Applicants for commissions as reserve officers who hold the pilot certificate of the Aero Club of America will, after undergoing the physical examination, be given a flying examination embodying the requirements of the preliminary test. If competent they may also take the reserve military aviator's test. If they pass this second test, they will be given a commission in the Aviation Section, Signal Reserve Corps...
...Russell, though he had been invited to lecture at Harvard during the present year. Whether or not such an offer ever will be made remains to be seen, but it does not seem likely that if Mr. Russell is called to Harvard he will be asked to take the chair held by such men as Professor Palmer and Professor Royce. The chair demands a philosophical scholar who is an ethical thinker of distinction, and Mr. Russell, with his provocative individualism, is hardly that. If any Englishman is wanted for the post, Canon Rashdall is probably the man with experience...