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...days ago we ran a short notice to the effect that the Crimson urges all members of the University to make use of the communication column. We are repeating now in a more prominent position the invitation...
...that, if the new system of "American valuation" were to be applied to books brought in from abroad, the result would be to make the duty not the 20 per cent, nominally written in the Fordney tariff, but actually 50 or 60 per cent. This would necessarily have the effect of greatly cutting down the importation of books...
...this be done? According to Professor McDougall, the effect of civilization is to increase the obligations each individual must fulfill, while at the same time it brings about conditions that nullify the principle of the survival of the fittest and therefore make the average individual loss able to fulfill these obligations. This is shown by statistics gathered in many places which indicate that the upper classes do not reproduce nearly so fast as the lower classes. The average Harvard graduate has seven-tenths of a son! Those who can bring into the world individuals better able to enter fully into...
...Bocquet, "The Fiddler", bears in Whistler's handwriting, the words "Fine proof". There are also several etchings of a later period, showing his later style, from the Venice subjects--as "The Doorway", "Rialto", and "Furnace Nocturne". The "Nocturne Palaces" is one of Whistler's famous Nocturnes and shows the effect which he produces in the wiping of the plate...
...public opinion by a general shout has progressed greatly within a generation. It is easy to provoke such a shout for a catchword which embodies a principle good in itself, without a perception on the part of the crowd that it has its limit, and that they are in effect being urged beyond that limit. Group psychology has been studied until we are familiar with its principles and its use. Professor Dicey remarked, in criticising the historical method of studying human problems, that when the cause of an abuse has been explained the abuse itself is half condoned...