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...chief significance of this triple agreement is not however the proposals themselves, it is the spirit manifest behind them. Particular points in the program will soon be proved or found wanting by the simple process of trial and error. All three schools are in the first rank. Norman Batchelder, Principal of Loomis, is a former Harvard athlete, and Arthur F. Howe of Taft a former Yale star. Their influence is likely to prove decisive in the history of school athletics. They have, further-inore, set the pace for the colleges. Signs are not wanting that such agreements will be multiplied...
...editorial. Because of this and because you had full permission to reprint the manuscript in full subsequent to its publication in Liberty, it would seem that you, and not I, are responsible for the purveying of "that insidious half truth which can make more trouble than all the error possible for any popular periodical to gather in a year." (I quote directly one of your editorial assertions...
...poor expositor, he was a great night-thinker, losing much sleep longing to correct possible false impressions. Huxley described "a marvelous dumb sagacity about him ... he gets to truth by ways as dark as those of the Heathen Chinee." Eternally openminded, he was frank before criticism, glad to acknowledge error, seldom condemned another's views by any word stronger than...
...back. It is only fair that I tell a waiting world that Harvard is going to beat Yale, beat her thoroughly and decisively. With that statement goes the whole reputation of Joe Forecast and as you all know that is no small thing. For never have I made an error in prognosticating a Harvard game...
Official records describe His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor Yoshihito, as the lineal descendant of the first and prehistoric Emperor Jimmu of Japan (circa 660-585 B. C.). Though the Emperor Jimmu is still believed to be the fifth in descent from the Sun-Goddess, an error was discovered last week in the official genealogy which has previously set forth that the present Emperor was the 122nd in descent from Jimmu. It now appears that the Emperor Chokei (1368-1372 A. D.) was a real person, and not mythological as was previously supposed. He was inserted in the official records last...