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Houghton, Mifflin and Co. will issue, the latter part of February, a book of remarkable importance, "The Liquor Problem, in its Legislative Aspect." It is the popular statement of the results of a very careful investigation of the working of prohibitory and license laws of various kinds in Maine, Iowa, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Missouri. This investigation was made by experts under the direction of Eliot and Low, and James C. Carter, Esq., a Sub-Committee of the Committee of Fifty, which has undertaken the problem of the Drink Question...
...resolutions adopted by the University A. C. of New York relative to holding the annual Yale-Princeton football game on college grounds have created considerable discussion in the university. The general opinion seems to be that the time has come when college athletics must be stripped of the mercenary aspect necessarily incident to holding the game in New York, and that the course suggested by the University A. C. would be for the best interests of the game...
...most attractive and lovable of men. Freshness and vivacity of feeling and expression formed in him a delightful combination with breadth and tenderness of sympathy, genial humor, clear intelligence and keen wit. There was nothing commonplace about him. His aspect, bearing, and expression were distinguished by a strongly marked originality and simplicity which added a special charm to his intercourses, and gave a peculiar flavor to his pervasive humor. His nature was frank and open, and in case of need his opinions were uttered with great vigor and certainty; but he shrank from display and avoided public distinctions...
...government has erected at Olympia contains inscriptions, articles of bronze, and terra cottas in almost bewildering number. Professor Dorpfeld exhibited at the close of his lecture panoramic views of the ruins, which showed clearly their present condition, and enabled his audience to picture to themselves in imagination the original aspect of this ancient seat of religious worship...
...Origin of Buddhism.- Relation to antecedent Vedism and Brahmanism.- Relation to contemporaneous sects and philosophies (Sankhya, Vedanta, etc.).- Practical aspect and common purpose of all Indian speculation.- The personality of Gotama...