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...last column were compiled. They express the ratio of the men in Congress to the number in a graduating class twenty years ago. The size of a class twenty years ago was taken, because that is about the time the average Congressman graduated. The ratios for the different colleges are approximately the same, from which we may conclude that each college sends about the same proportion of its men to Congress. This fact would hardly be expected, since the colleges differ so widely. It is, perhaps, an argument that all the colleges, large or small, produce approximately the same percentage...
...state the great masses of various races which pour into the land differ not only from the native Americans but from one another. There is talk of assimilation and amalgamation, but blends lose the quality of the ingredients, and that is what we may look forward to when we attempt to amalgamate the widely different races which come to this country. This diversity of races in the state is going to exist for hundreds and thousands of years and is desirable, as natural history shows. For a third time we must look to ideals for unity and find them...
...scene of the first farce is the office of a hotel in the town of State Line, on the boundary of New Jersey and New York, the state line running through the office of the hotel. As the laws of New York and New Jersey differ on divorce and on the serving of writs, the state line passing through the room causes unexpected and very amusing complications in the relations of James Long, a somewhat quick-tempered young husband; Susan Long, who in a fit of anger has recently arranged a divorce from him in the Dakota courts; their Aunt...
...athletic systems of the two countries differ in many respects. In Denmark, much more attention is paid to the all-around development of the body than in this country. Much attention is given to such athletics as gymnastics and wrestling. From the time the boys and girls enter primary school they are systematically instructed by trained experts along these lines, with the result that by the time they graduate from the secondary schools they are physically well developed...
...undergraduate be informed beforehand concerning the nature of his courses? Most of us did not come to Harvard for the single purpose of training our memories, however valuable such incidental training may be. There is another department in the University devoted to the psychology of this subject. Moreover, authorities differ as to the effect upon the memory of loading and unloading the mind under forced draught...