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...saved in the faith and in politics. Justices of the United States Supreme Court can then turn to Dr. Butler's handy reference book to discover how far they are permitted to go in reconciling their theories of law with the acts of various legislatures. Congress need never again err by exceeding its powers so long as a single member keeps on hand a copy of the decisions of the high court of Columbia...
...CRIMSON'S timely exhortation some days ago to maintain more carefully collegiate neutrality it was urged that "it is the duty of every member of the University to err on the side of understatement rather than of excess and agitation." The CRIMSON'S attitude is proper, but this point needs both emphasis and a somewhat clearer formulation, for the benefit of certain members of our body academic who appear to have needed it not. What the University wants, and what America desires, and what the world needs is not mere "understatement and restraint"; the desideratum is that prejudice and passion...
...matter of individual opinion. It is a conclusion admitting of no diversity of opinion that with the foreign situation in its present critical position, with the continued neutrality of the United States by no means assured, it is the duty of every member of the University to err on the side of understatement and restraint rather than of excess and agitation...
Many people err by thinking that Comte, being a philosopher, made his doctrine in religion subordinate to his philosophy; as a matter of fact, positivism, the system of philosophy for which Comte is famous, means precisely positive religion, to which positive philosophy, as taught by the "cours de philosophie positive," is only introductory. Thus, positivism is a system which excludes from philosophy all physical relations that are not discovered by observation, experiment, or comparison...
...most Freshman courses. It is only by entering enthusiastically upon one of the many fields of activity which Harvard offers--athletic, literary, philanthropic, etc.,--that a man comes to realize his true position in the University and to come into close touch with his classmates. A few men err in devoting themselves half-heartedly to any interest for which they feel a passing fancy, but they are in the minority. We are confident that a serious application to some interest outside, but not to the exclusion of his studies, will make any man's college career more beneficial and more...