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...suggested that each student resident in Cambridge be taxed $1.00 a year. This would afford a certain fixed sum which could safely be calculated upon. Moreover, five dollars would be deducted from the charges against all students who were sent to the infirmary, so that the payment of the one dollar would be in the nature of insurance...
...oratory and acting, many actors have wondered why they have failed in making speeches, and many orators have been surprised that they have not succeeded on the stage. While many of the attributes are the same, as clear articulation, graceful gesture, impressive manner, and magnetism, they separate at a certain point. The orator must be impressive, the actor impressionable. The orator impresses the audience by what he says, while the actor is most effective in showing how he is impressed by what is said to him. For example, take the famous scene where Othello rebukes Cassio. Cassio makes no reply...
...excessive interference by legislatures in local affairs. - (5) To unsatisfactory charter arrangements. - (6) To corrupt influence of property owners, corporations and rich men: Adams, Public Debts, p. 365. - (c) Businesslike administration and present broad suffrage are not necessarily inconsistent, as shown by - (1) Reformed city governments. - (2) Perfection of certain departments, e. g., Fire and Police Departments. - (3) Foreign experience, e. g., Birmingham: Forum, Vol. 14, p. 267. - (4) The judgment of reformers and practical men. - (d) Undesirable voters can be excluded in more direct and practicable ways. - (1) The ignorant, by an educational qualification. - (2) The corrupt, by more...
...success of Japan is certain to affect our relations in the Pacific vitally. Our chief competitors at sea for a century have been the little islands across the Atlantic and here we have similar competition growing up in three small islands across the Pacific. For the honor of this country, it is to be hoped that we may acquire dominion over the Hawaiian Islands as an offset to the Japanese hold on Corea...
What have we to learn from this war? Have we not the same feeling of security that the Chinese had before the war? Do we not often hear that no country would dare attack us? It is this self sufficiency which is certain to come before disaster-One blessing we have and that is boundless resources for building our defense. May we never be in that helpless condition that will oblige us to buy our ships and munitions of war abroad. In the midst of unexampled commercial prosperity, is not our martial spirit disappearing? Have not a strong tendency...