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Contributions from living alumni, of course, involve no such entanglements, but in their case there is another objection. Graduates of comparatively limited means find it difficult to use in any appropriate way the little they can afford to give. A gift of several thousand dollars can stand on its own feet anywhere; but when it is a question of several hundreds or less, the gift by itself feels a little abashed. Yet such contributions together form a very valuable addition to any university's resources...
...having the large collection of plates of the Henry Draper Memorial, from which the spectra of 225,000 stars distributed over the entire sky have been catalogued by Miss Cannon, curator of astronomical photographs. Many of these plates were made at the South American station of the Observatory, and afford valuable material for the determination of the "spectroscopic parallax" by the Mount Wilson method, as there is a great paucity of data concerning stars in the Southern hemisphere. Professor Shapley, Director of the Observatory, has just recently published in Circulars 228 and 232 of the Observatory Publications the parallaxes...
...this psychological moment, the student should be confronted with "Do You Know!--Know where you can take your discarded books and receive full value in return--not in money, to be sure,--but in the realization that they will be of great use to many men who could not afford to buy them?" This is the Phillips Brooks House Loan Library which loans several thousand volumes to students at nominal fees every year; a valuable service--and one in accord with Carlyle's observation: "A true University of these days is a Collection of Books...
...Lastly, the 'Farm Bloc' has dealt with taxation during the past year on the principle that this Government cannot afford to transfer the burdens of the was from the profits of the few who can afford to pay many of whom secured their wealth from war profits, to the backs and belies of the messes now struggling under adverse conditions to keep body and soul together...
...possible result; economic law will force either war, or some cooperation worthy of the name. Watchful waiting may be adequate in dealing with a Mexico, but for a group of nations so economically interdependent as those on the European continent, it is an economic impossibility. Bankrupt Europe cannot long afford a war or wars, should they break out; all the great governmental representatives--M. Tchitcherin, M. Barthou, Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor With--all of them,, like "all the King's horses and all the King's men" are powerless to change this fact. The tragedy is that they are also...