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...today, however, the first signs of the reaction against individualism. Man is waking up to the realization that each person is only an atom in society and must find his place in its organism. With this thought noted in the minds of the people, mariage is secure, for it rests, not so much on the strictness of law, as on the tradition of reverence and instinct of respect with which people regard it. Such feeling is destroyed no more surely by city-living, with its drifting home-life or even absolute homelessness, than on the ostentation of the luxurious rich...
...lowest estimate of the expenses which the class will have to pay for its crew. These figures have been computed with a great deal of care from the experience of former class crews, and there is no reason to believe that the expenses could be cut down one atom lower. The slowness of the class in subscribing to its crew might have been heretofore explained by the fact that the men did not realize how much was needed. This statement with its total of $2650 is an excellent enlightener. Ninety-five sees now what a task it has before...
...Dodo, in their relation to the Myrmecobius and Plato's Doctrine of Ideas." Mr. Shoemaker, "Harvard Oratory, may it ever be what an Adams, an Everett, and a Quincy have made it." Mr. Cabot, "The Transcendental Unity of Aperception." Mr. Warren, "The size and relations of the atom and molecule," Mr. Moore, "The Greek moods and tenses; their influence on modern culture." Mr. Jacobs, "The Mugwump; his position in modern politics." Mr. Ward, "Faust and Gretchen...
...says of the new Medical School building, that "the task was to build a great square box, wholly of brick, with no ornamentation and with the necessity for floods of light in the interior. Yet there is beauty in the result-architectural beauty of the strictest kind, though no atom of that 'picturesqueness' which popular criticism falsely considers its equivalent." Of Sever Hall, the writer remarks, "that there is much more originality in its quiet success than in many more striking works, and that the introduction of the great round-arched doorway gives a grateful touch of piquancy...
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