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More recently, Mr. Burns has been engaged in the Ohio legislature bribery trials, when he introduced a new element into detective work by the use of the dictagraph. He is probably best known, however, through the Los Angeles Times dynamiting case. He was employed by the Manufacturers' Association to investigate this and the other recent out-rages which have occurred throughout the country. He has secured the confessions and conviction of the McNamara brothers, and within this month a score of labor leaders have been indicted on information which he has obtained...
...Palmer said that a personal religion, which each man must work out for himself, as opposed to the corporate religion into which he is born, is the basic necessity of all belief. Some attain it by intuition, others by logical reasoning, but unless the personal element is present, faith will give way to scepticism in a crisis...
...Williams student body apply to our system. In choosing his courses at Harvard, a man must devote a considerable part of his attention to one group, but at the same time he is obliged to distribute the remainder of his work over other fields. Moreover, our system includes the element of continuity of subjects without making it necessary to confine one's course of study to a single line of progress. The group system is invaluable in that it promotes concentration to a certain degree, but an added asset of out system is that it also domands a considerable degree...
...discussion in which a number of very interesting points were brought up. It was shows that very few undergraduates realize the importance of this kind of constructive work as an adjunct to their college studies, and that the learning to grasp the point of view of the non-collegian element in society was as difficult as it was a valuable accomplishment for a college...
...songs by past members of the club formed an agreeable element in the program. Of these, first mention should be given Mr. Foster's "On Beaches and Dunes" for its harmonic individuality and charm of original sentiment. Mr. Sweet's "Warum sind die Rosen so blass" was a close, second as regards sentiment and workmanship. As a whole, the club is heartily to be congratulated upon the signal success of its concert...