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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...star-gazing professor of stellar history radiographing scientific inquiries, to the youngest Boy Scout wig-wagging questions about the baseball score, men of various degrees of wisdom have talked with the unheeding planet. Mars has been unresponsive. Perhaps that is because Mars is a gentleman and refuses to speak without a proper introduction to a chance acquaintance, especially such a disreputable feminine one as the earth. If so, the sun had better be called upon as an intermediary, to heliograph a social, "Earth, meet Mars." If the language used to Mars is ill chosen, it had better be changed. Many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FREEZE-OUT ON MARS | 2/10/1917 | See Source »

...keep his red grass and his last icy immersion. Even though he does belong to a family older than ours by some million years, even if he is a more remote neighbor of the garish sun, even if he is a gentleman, yet we can get along without replies to our wireless greetings, nor smiles to our heliographed winks. We can get along without Mars. Mars is so cold he would freeze alcohol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FREEZE-OUT ON MARS | 2/10/1917 | See Source »

...reminded that a fine of five dollars is charged after February 24 for any change in the selection of half-courses beginning in the second half-year; also that extra fees are charged for additional courses. Saturday, March 3, is the last day for withdrawal from such a course without payment of this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST MEETINGS OF COURSES BEGINNING SECOND HALF-YEAR | 2/9/1917 | See Source »

...duty of every Harvard man to support the President without any hesitation in any step which the President takes to enforce the rights of the United States against Germany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. It is no time for patriotic citizens to question the wisdom of the President in asserting these rights as he has done from time to time. The fact is that the President did assert our rights with the full approval of most of us and the acquiescence of all. The time to question those assertions of our rights has gone by; the time for their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S DUTY SHOWN | 2/9/1917 | See Source »

Books are barren things without breadth. The little urchin on the street selling papers to a thousand passing people is more deeply versed in human psychology than the college man of twice his years specializing in abstruse philosophy. He knows that all men are not selfish, as your embryo pessimist would believe, and that all men are not prosperous and well-fed, as the young college optimist would like to hope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FULLER WISDOM | 2/9/1917 | See Source »

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