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...have always been in favor of the League, and am much encouraged after seeeing it in action. In point of fact the League is by far the greatest charitable organization that has ever existed on the face of the earth. No other, to cite one phase alone, has repatriated half a million prisoners of war! On its political side, it has prevented several wars, and is working towards disarmament by slow practical steps, to say nothing of having set up the first and only effective World Court...
...United States in the dark years between the surrender of Cornwallis and the signing of the Constitution. But where America had 13 colonies with a population of two millions, China has 22 provinces, each the size of an European kingdom, with a population one quarter of the earth's total numbers, or some 400 millions. Moreover, continued Bishop Roots, she has no background of political experience and tradition, such as we inherited from England. The Chinese Republic is here to stay, but there is much still to be done in organizing the government, and in combatting the Red propaganda which...
President Eliot asserted that each pupil should acquire some technical sort of skill, either with tools, with the fine arts, with music, or in domestic science. Every student, furthermore, ought to be carefully and certainly taught the means of resisting the evils to which we are exposed on the earth, "particularly those parts of it which we call civilized. These evils include not only pests and infections, but moral as well as physical dangers...
...this aside as fantastic, imaginative, and utterly impossible. But was not the world a flat surface until the year 1492 A. D.? It was only then that men became first aware that the straight line of the earth's surface was curved, and that a man could return to his starting-point simply by continuing far enough in what appeared to be a straight lien. Why is it not equally sensible to believe that a man might literally regain his second childhood if he could live long enough? It is relatively certain that America was discovered long before Adam...
Eight lectures by Professor Shapley. 1. The Problems of Modern Astronomy. 2. Space, Time and Starlight. 3. Stars and Atoms. 4. Stellar Variation and Evolution. 5. Measuring the Milky Way. 6. Nebulae and Island Universes. 7. Origin of the Earth. 8. Life and the Physical Universe. Tuesdays and Fridays at 8.00 P. M., beginning Tuesday, October...