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Arthur Brisbane commented on the univesity's refusal as follows: "Eugenics at present is more guesswork than science. Ninety per cent of the alumni will approve the action of the Harvard trusiees. If in John Harvard's day somebody had offered a legacy to develop the possibility of getting power out of boiling water, or harnessing lightning, they would have rejected it with general approval. Fifty years ago if anyone had offered Harvard $1,000,000 for the study of flying he would have been told, 'You must not make this great unversity ridiculous.' Eugenics in days to come will...
...turned to higher animals, strange deformities were noticed. In commenting on this Professor Parker stated that it must be expected that in abnormal processes one often receives distorted results. When an embryo hick which was fertilized in this manner by the radiation of the ultra violet rays started to develop it was round that it grew to have only one eye and its heart was broken into a number of separate pieces, each one of which palsated independently...
...Hope to Develop Professional Solidarity...
...Universal Alliance. Miss Bloom also said: "Mrs. Coolidge is worth $1,000,000 a year to the Republican Party. Her grace and charm are real assets in the White House and contribute much to the prestige of the Administration." Conference delegates also heard Miss Majorie Webster discuss "How to Develop Personality"; Miss Ella May Powell on "Music, the World's New Refuge"; and saw a religious pageant with authentic Biblical costumes from the Holy Land...
Profiting by the experiences of the first venture the Floating University ought to develop into a permanent institution of much value in the world. Americans can no longer afford to be ignorant of the attitudes of other nations; we can no longer afford to dismiss international problems lightly as not concerning us. It is in this field of promoting international understanding and good will that the Floating University can perform its best senvice. To teach 500 college men and women what other people do, what they look like, how they think, and how they feel (this last is often most...