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...book is a chronicle of the Harrison Williams Expedition in the Spring of 1923. Williams is the Cleveland -New York public utilities capitalist who financed the expedition and donated the Noma, his luxurious 250-foot steam yacht. He went along. Beebe was director of scientific work. Dr. William Morton Wheeler, distinguished Harvard entomologist, was a member of the party. There was also a physician and a surgeon, a game-fisher, a curator of dredging and diving, a chief hunter, a marine artist, a photographer and cinematographer (John Tee-Van) a preparateur, a taxidermist, a scientific artist and a historian...
...team upholding the affirmative, consisting of W. D. Morton, Randall Creel, and D. R. K. Barnes, with L. S. King as alternate...
...team which will meet Princeton at Princeton will uphold the affirmative side of the question: "Resolved, that the provisions of the Platt Amendment regarding Cuba should now be applied to the Philippine Islands." This team will consist of W. D. Morton, Randall Creel and D. RK. Barnes, with L. S., King as alternate, and they will speak in the order named...
...first speaker for the negative, W. D. Morton '27, emphasized that success in the field of concentration presages later success in life, and quoted to show that the chances were 300 percent greater for late success if men had high schol- astic attainments. "It is necessary to use learned methods to select those who will be our leaders," he concluded...
...Morton Arnold '25, speaking next for the negative said: "These methods such as psychological and intelligence tests would tend to blurr and obscure the whole system of scholastic education. What would be the result? The secondary schools would immediately see the utter folly of trying to train pupils to pass other than scholastic tests." Arnold summed up his argument admirably when he said: "We believe in selecting for colleges those men who have proved to be intellectual leaders in the secondary schools...