Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gift of $400,000 in securities has been made to the Harvard Law School by Chester DeWitt Pugsley '86, president of the Westchester County National Bank at Peekskill, New York, to provide graduate scholarships in international law for students from all nations of the world...
There are two main groups of people in the world, those who think and those who do things. A third class, those who think and then do things is as small in numbers as it is important in effect. Obviously Mr. Soares was pondering some method for enlarging the latter group when he allowed himself to be quoted in the CRIMSON as favoring some plan for the closer incorporation of extracurricular activities with the academic work of American Colleges...
...very few Leonids appeared last November, and if more are seen this week, predictions may be made about the coming great show. The entire civilized world is requested in a notice received from the Harvard Observatory to assist in searching for hitherto unknown records of past Leonid showers. Dr. Fisher, known as Harvard's "meteor fisherman", believes that a great many references to the Leonids exist which have not been found. He has already received notice of a chronicle in Syria, made in Damascus in the twelfth century, and containing astronomical observations as far back as the sixth century. Information...
...Plaskett, director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, B. C., has just arrived at Harvard to spend two or three weeks. He is a special student of the rotation of the Galaxy, and has in his charge the second largest telescope in the world, the property of the Government of Canada. Dr. Plaskett is the father of Professor H. H. Plaskett of the Harvard Observatory...
Events of the past few weeks in the financial world should make the annual meeting of the Harvard Economic Society this week of particular interest. Half-backed comments on the stock market situation have been uttered on every side; constructive analyses by those best qualified have been uttered on every side; constructive analyses by those best qualified have been few and far between. While the list of subjects announced does not specifically include the stock market, there will be discussion of the outlook for various key industries as well as for business in general...