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...whole. In other words, one of about every four members of the club is engaged in some form of service directly related to the war, with the men in auxiliary work outnumbered nearly three to one by those in active service. There would be an element of guess-work in applying this ration to the entire Harvard fellowship; yet we do not believe any serious miscalculation would result. --Alumni Bulleting...
President Lowell has said that he expected every man in College to have at least one military course on his study card. He does not expect anyone to give up all other branches of study. Our Faculty, as one may guess, is not an enemy combined against humanitarianism. But times change, and such changes make new study imperative. The world war has wrought a tremendous change, and we must understand the forces that are to decide that...
...purpose of existence, we should know the value of a human life, and how much or little the world is benefitted by the annihilation of that life in seeking tremendous goals. But since we do not know, nor even the shrewdest men, for all their cleverness, dare to guess, we cannot say what value to place on mortality, and whether it is better that men live their allotted term of three score years and ten heedless of the fall and rise of worlds, or whether it is better that men die before their time that great deeds may be accomplished...
...There is no doubt that earnest diplomatic persuasion has been exercised to induce China to break off relations. The United States minister has been urging the Chinese government to take this step, and one may guess that Great Britain, France and Japan have not been less urgent in the same direction...
Although the endeavors of research workers have been hindered to a great extent by the credulity of the public in accepting the results of guess-work, fraud and chance coincidence through mediums, a great deal has been done through such mediums as Mrs. Piper, who was first discovered by Professor William James and others of equal importance. The various records of psychic phenomena which Dr. Hyslop set before the meeting revealed in a most interesting manner the basis for his belief that streams of consciousness survive the body. "I believe," said the noted psychologist in concluding, "that you cannot prove...