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...Keep your shirt on"--"watchful waiting" was the key of last evening's meeting "in view of the prospects of war." And there were very few men who left the Union without a deep impression of the sanity of three remarkably fine speeches. It is just such times as these that call attention to the potential value to the country of milita training and the Military Camps for College men, of a sound knowledge of health and sanitation, and even of a trained mind...
After Dr. Fitch's talk, there was an informal discussion in which the affairs of the Territorial Clubs received deep consideration. The problem of injecting more sociability into the meetings, and the task of carrying through the work on the hand-book were acclaimed the most imminent, and it was decided to meet both questions by more closely binding together the separate clubs through a union of the different officers into one common committee. No further action was taken and the hand-book is no nearer publication than before. The attendance at the meeting was discouragingly small...
Professor Durand is a deep student of financial affairs and matters dealing with the Trusts. From 1900 to 1909, he served as Assistant Commissioner of Corporations at Washington, taking a prominent part at that time in investigations of the Trusts. He was also active in conducting the government suits which resulted in the demolition of the Standard Oil and Tobacco Trusts. From 1910 to 1913, he was director of the Census, resigning on the advent of the present administration. His lectures will be open to the public...
...analysis of the resources for moral instruction is then the central question of modern education. There is in human nature a deep stratum, underlying the results of training. A rich manifold of instinct, containing the material from which good or bad conduct may evolve. This manifold of instinct is plastic and may be moulded, so that from nature arises second nature. The instinct of pugnacity may be transformed into a desire to fight for good...
...modern speech. In this group are Croiset, Canson, Le Franc, Baldensperger, and Legouis. "There is something inexplicable in the gift of speech," he said, "something as rare as the gift of poetry. And the art of teaching, like that of speaking, is more or less a mystery which requires deep analysis,--a sort of trade which we are all endeavoring to follow...