Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rapid growth of the Department indicated by these figures is due, of course, to the great interest in economic problems during the last thirty or forty years. The familiar statistics showing the number of students now concentrating in the Department of Economics also reflect the spirit of the age. Whether we would have it so or not, the Department is under the necessity of doing a very large part of the teaching both in Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...sort of mirror of Harvard activities. This spirit is evident in the new number, although nothing is said about it; indeed, the only reference to the change in policy is an announcement that the next issue will appear on May 15. But the editorials and contributed articles alike reflect the "up-to-dateness" which the editors seem to be striving after. They also indicate that the Illustrated is to be more than ever a strictly Harvard publication; three "other colleges" are mentioned in just twenty-one lines, ably concealed among the advertising pages. The pictures share the spirit...
...tends to defract the waves upward so that they will pass far above the comparatively low aerials of the wireless posts and thus permit no message to be noticed. This is an objection which applies more directly to the flat and more light-colored districts which would thus better reflect the sun's heat. The third cause of difficulty in land operations is, in general, unfavorable conditions of topography. This applies more strictly to mountains which actually serve as effectual blocks to the waves. The accomplishment of making an experimental wireless laboratory, which has proven so efficient, not only shows...
Curtis Guild '81, spoke in Emerson A yesterday afternoon on "The Needed Reorganization of Our Department of State." At the outset he made it clear that his comments were not intended to reflect on the present administration nor on the personnel of the present service, but rather on a system which, through the neglect of Congress, has for many years been a source of embarrassment to the Department of State...
...previous class has had so good a chance to know the candidates. The vote today should reflect the interest the class takes in its own affairs. A large vote today will be one of the first tangible evidences of the success of the new dormitories...