Word: william
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...duties of this office. Grover Cleveland was a Democrat whose power lay in his conservatism. Whatever he did, he took the consequences for. Mr. Harrison, who was our next President, was a clear-minded, clever lawyer, but narrow and bigoted in religious matters. Mr. Wise first met William McKinley in Congress. His chief fault was his inability to free himself from the influences about him. The rise of President Roosevelt to power has been entirely due to his aggressiveness. Mr. Wise's acquaintance with the next President, William H. Taft, began when Mr. Taft was a judge in Cincinnati...
Professor William James M.'69 will deliver the sixth lecture of his series on "The Present Situation in Philosophy," in the New Lecture Hall this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The special subject of today's lecture will be "Bergson's Critique of Intellectualism." This lecture is open to the public as well as to members of the University...
...College Library has received from Mrs. Edward Brandegee of Brookline the largest collection of books which has been presented since the Library's foundation. The collection is to be known as the Weld Memorial, in memory of Mrs. Brandegee's grandfather, William Fletcher Weld, the donor of Weld Hall. The collection, consisting of 11,880 volumes, is from the library of Richard H. Bowie of Philadelphia. There is no room in Gore Hall at present for such a great number of books, and they are stored temporarily in the basement of one of the College dormitories...
...Living Room of the Union last evening on "The George Junior Republic." He showed what the experiment was and what sort of work it was accomplishing. The Republic was not a complete organization at first, but was a gradual outgrowth of a summer camp, established by Mr. William George in 1891. Mr. George established a jury system with a judge and district attorney, and a supreme court of appeals was instituted. In the fall of 1894 Mr. George decided to form a legislature and institute a system of coinage. The thought struck him that this meant a republic...
Professor William James M. '69 will deliver the fourth lecture of his series on "The Present Situation in Philosophy" in New Lecture Hall this afternoon at 4.30 P. M. The lecture will be "On Fechner," considering his psycho-physic formula concerning intensity of the perception of sensation, and what he has done for the advancement of phychological and philosophical studies...