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...freedom of discussion of the university teacher should be that he act and speak as a scholar. The moment the thinking man is restricted in his thought half the value of his work is destroyed. You cannot say to Galileo, 'Use your telescope, but don't discover that the earth revolves about...
...said at the Astronomical laboratory that the suddenness with which stars disappear when the light is thus cut off by the disk of the moon bears witness to the lack of atmosphere on the earth's satellites. If there were any atmosphere they would be considerably dimmed just before their disappearance...
...keen-sighted reformers will surely include in their program of elimination coffee and tea, which are deathly poisons, and candy, which deteriorates the nation. One by one will the products of the earth be blacklisted, since evil is evidently the essence of all things; and oh what happiness when men shall be delivered from the universe! What glory then for out pessimists, who alone can bring about reforms! They lead us wisely, for they see clearly that if men be allowed to retain their personal liberty to make use of, or to abstain from, alcohol, nicotine, and other curses from...
...futility of comparative scores should take the edge from our over-confidence, and when it is realized that Yale was without the services of her captain, we will be brought back to earth with a thud. Our team is a fighting aggregation, well grounded in the fundamentals. With the support of a loyal, but not overconfident student body, they will offer Yale and Princeton a sturdy battle. We face a stiff assignment; a double victory is not a sinecure...
...should like to ask Mr. Borah whom he regards as an ultimate authority on statesmanship. He once declared that if the Savior should reappear on earth and support the league, he would nevertheless vote against it. And yet this illustrious senator terms President Lowell a traitor to the past because he does not apply the words of Washington, uttered more than a century ago, to the events of today. Surely the senator from Idaho is oddly inconsistent...