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Compulsory production is most effective when mechanical. Negative consumption creates an excess of happiness or unhappiness, which we call, respectively, tastes and needs. Positive consumption tends to simplify tastes; luxuries are required only by those who have no resources in themselves. Spontaneous consumption is the most useful of these four useful acts. Production is being pursued as an end in itself. When a means is mistaken for an end, that end is sacrificed for the means. The ultimate end must be seen all the time. Less attention should be paid to wealth and more to happiness...
...Underwood '12, Holworthy 10, in Cambridge and at Herrick's and the Jordan Hall box office in Boston. The price of tickets is $1.50 and $1. To all members of the club a discount of 15 per cent, will be granted on all tickets purchased in excess...
...Faculty is right in attributing the excess of cuts to the football games. The Student Council is right in requesting students to attend their Saturday lectures. But the undergraduates gain but every little by cutting on those days when their attendance is most important to the cause of athletics...
Professor Lefranc traced briefly the growth of the Renaissance movement for the education of woman. Moliere took an active part in this quarrel, as in others. His attitude, as revealed in "Les Femmes Savantes," was not opposed to the education of women, but merely to the excess of this tendency, which, as other excesses, he held up to ridicule...
...mission in life, and he does not question it. If football is merely played for the loyalty it inspires--spring the trap and let it perish." The article supporting Professor Royce's view lacks the worst faults of the opposing statement, but is also inclined to excess, both in language and argument...