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...wrote the famous poker scene in which Pippa passes?" and "When did A. H. Woods produce "Getting Goethe's Garter'?" the student will pause at number thirteen. For once the ancient hoodoo reems to be broken; here is a question for which he can hope to find an answer. It reads: "How was 'Paradise Lost'? Who lost it? Who found it?" Professor Lowes, in his lecture on Milton this afternoon, may not reply to that particular question; but he will give information that will be useful on a more important questionnaire the General Examinations...
...answer to the question what specific action the United States should take, Commissioner Noyes replied. "We should unite with England in the appointment of a commission of prominent citizens of both countries. This commission should have power to bring severe economic pressure to bear against France, which would result in the depreciation in the value of the franc. France must be brought to a realization of a mistake, which will harm her more than any other nation...
...make freedom not only possible but necessary. The men today--and there are many of them--who complain against being obliged to take a science course when they are going to be lawyers, or a literary course when they are going to be scientists, have always had the answer that "it broadens them". Dr. Eliot's remarks now suggest another answer: it gives them a chance to make sure that their first choice is correct, and that they have chosen work in which they can find continued joy. Dilettantism in the college, a tendency to try a little of everything...
This subject, he brought out, has great interest to industries, especially those ruled by machinery, and in which the worker has come to be regarded as a cog. Here the answer to the problem will be, said Dr. Eliot, after several hours a day spent in monotonous labor earning a livelihood, to turn to some hard enjoyable work. But at the idea of there being joy in any kind of work, the labor union man scoffs in derision. And this, says Dr. Eliot, is to be deplored. The attitude that there is not happiness in work is the prevalent idea...
...must be tolerant of the sentimentalists: perhaps their misguided mouthings will rouse someone, like the Advocate's contributor, to answer them; and perhaps he will arouse other answers in turn. Even bigotry has its uses...