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...chapter in the growth of interest in the science of economics which has been the most notable alteration of recent years in Harvard's curriculum. Professor Taussing was the second man to give a course in economics at Harvard College; since the time he began, the introductory course has grown to a membership of several hundred, and a whole department has been built up. The science of economics is still very young. One of its points about which controversy has raged--the quantity theory of money--Professor Roorbach is peculiarly fitted to speak on, because of his research work...
Tennis has grown tremendously in popularity during the last decade. From a despised, so-called "effeminate" game, it has emerged as one of the great sports of the nation. Under the efficient management of the National Lawn Tennis Association, every club, every section has its tournament and its champion. Eleven thousand people witnessed the finals of the National Championship at Forest Hills, New York...
...merchant marine fleet of the United States will have grown to a considerable size within a short time, and efforts are being made throughout the nation to recruit a sufficient number of men to take care of the new program. Retention by the United States of all German ships seized after the declaration of war, will, according to information from Washington, make it certain that this country will be the second maritime power in the world, with Great Britain in first place and Japan in third. When the war began in 1914 American vessels carried only 9.7 per cent...
...called International Circle of men and women students in the French capital, who first banded themselves together about a year ago. With the demobilization of allied armies since the armistice and the liberal granting of furloughs and leaves to those not yet discharged from service, the organization has grown into a recognized and thoroughly representative body. The objects of the Congress may be summed up in that characteristic American phrase of which Capt. Ian Hay Beith could not rob us even by adoption, namely, "Getting Together...
Surely the work of the society merits the college's support. It strives to keep alive that most cohesive of all realities at the University--Harvard's unbroken and untarnished tradition of liberal learning, which has grown and broadened steadily since 1636, thirteen years, before King Charles I of England lost his head at Whitehall...