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This unfortunate was, perhaps, in the same predicament as the author of "Backward, turn backward, O Time in your flight," and he was certainly no more successful. Mechanical means of saving time are always ingenious and often convenient, but they lack the necessary "human factor". The use of "fifteen minutes a day," for instance, will lessen the disappointment when "time itself shall be no more...
...bulwark of international capitalism, chief stake of diplomacy in backward countries, cause of war, seems destined to become more and more the great motivating factor of American foreign policy. Free competition has long since been abolished, and the struggle for wells, spheres of exploitation, areas of monopoly, and markets is becoming more bitter and more fraught with intrigue, discrimination, tariffs, and embargoes...
...comedy completes its schedule, which consisted of a private performance before graduates on December 20, and public performances in Cambridge on January 3, Brookline January 5, West Newton January 6, and Providence on January 9, Features of the play are the music by L. A. Barlow '23, including "Looking Backward" and "The Wireless Blues", and a specialty trio, "When Nero Played His Fiddle in a Roman Cabaret" by J. R. West '23, L. F. Holmes '24, and H. S. Pinkham '25. The singing and acting of C. H. Morgan '24 as Mary Stevens Blair and Cleopatra, have been especially praised...
...Iowa, and Indiana range from thirteen to thirty. It is also enlightening to see that the state of California sends thirty-one students across the continent and that Colorado, now fattone the purse of the of the railroad with a delegation of seventeen. Only the southern states apparently are backward in entrusting their emissaries to the vicissitudes of a New England winter...
...liberal" ideas and evoke a "progressive" platform inevitably finds plenty of people to listen to him. An avowed "conservative" usually commands an audience of himself and row upon row of empty chairs. As a result, people become so afraid of being thought conservative in any way, that they lean backward in an effort to stand straight as out-and-out liberals. In consequence, they resort to every extreme to show themselves in full sympathy with the latest popular movement in every field. Under these circumstances, liberalism tends to become radicalism, reflected in every "latest fad,"--in post-impressionistic renderings...