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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology, will speak tonight over station WCOP at 8 o'clock on "Why Babies Behave as They Do" as part of the Lowell Institute's series on "We Human Beings." Accompanying Professor Allport will be a panel of students from four local colleges, including William F. Clark '48 and Nancy Buhrer, Radcliffe...
Said grey, spindly Director Edmund W. Sinnott: "Science is modern, popular and dominant. It needs no special pleaders.... It cannot help being tempted to a certain arrogance and a conviction that the keys of truth are in its hands alone. [But] logic and reason are no monopoly of science. . . . Science regards a human being not as a soul which may be saved or lost but as an exquisitely constructed physicochemical mechanism. ... To many thoughtful minds the gains of science are secondary and superficial things...
...Bonanza. The men who made and kept the great Comstock fortunes were good gamblers with a certain kind of brains. Two of them, John W. Mackay and James G. Fair, had been pick-&-shovel men in their time. The two others, James C. Flood and William S. O'Brien, never -ot closer to mining than the floor of San Francisco's Mining Exchange. Mackay and Fair, who came to the top in the rough & tumble life of Virginia City, get more than two-thirds of Author Lewis' space...
...gift from a retired New York banker will result in the establishment of a new teaching chair in the Music Department, to be known as the Walter W. Naumberg Professorship of Music...
...endowment, given by Walter W. Naumberg '89, former member of the banking firm of E. Naumberg and Company, follows earlier gifts from him and his father, Elkan Naumberg. These donations have made possible the Naumberg Fellowships for graduates of the College who have shown marked ability in music composition...