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...introducing the speaker Professor Wendell '77 gave a short outline of M. d'Avenel's career as an economist, concluding with the statement that he is the first lecturer to set forth the great economic changes which affect France today...
...number of the "Harvard Illustrated Magazine" is dedicated to Professor William James, in recognition of his retirement from active teaching, and contains an interesting series of articles on his life and work. Mr. Hans von Kaltenborn gives a brief preliminary account of Professor James's career; Professor Munsterberg sets forth his special qualifications, both by nature and by training, for his work as a physiological psychologist; Professor R. B. Perry deals more generally with his attitude in philosophy and shows how "pragmatism" has been with him a matter both of temperament and of deliberate theory; and Professor Neilson, bringing...
...there-abouts you see them hurrying back. Three hundred or so of them row; three hundred more of them play Rugby; four hundred and fifty play association football; two hundred perhaps play hockey, and the rest have other recreations; track athletics, lacrosse, cross country riding, motoring and so forth...
...closing, Mr. McCall said that he believed that Harvard through its scholars had sent forth the most potent single force in the country. This quiet presentation of academic distinctions, he said, is far better than the acclaim of forty thousand people in the Stadium. There is soon to be a reaction in the world, and it will become popular to be a scholar. And this is right, for nothing in the world is more useful to one's country than scholarship...
...Report on the Choice of Undergraduate members to the Phi Beta Kappa Society" the seemingly sound reasons for an increased undergraduate membership of the Society are set forth at length, and the proposed changes in the method of electing members, including the formation of a membership committee, to report on qualifications of candidates, are urged. In view of the prevalent cry about professionalism in athletics it is interesting and rather amusing to read what a "recent undergraduate of high distinction" has to say concerning the spirit of professionalism present in college scholarship. The opinions expressed parallel those which are often...