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American writers, said the speaker, have worked the richest field in the short story. Mr. Thomas Nelson Page and Mr. Joel Chandler Harris are well known southerners, and Mr. Harding Davis has made a national reputation for himself which is perhaps a little in excess of his merits. "Gallegher" is on the whole his best achievement, and his early stories are in general his best. Miss Jewett and Miss Wilkins are in Mr. Copeland's opinion at the top of American writers of the short story. Miss Wilkins is undoubtedly the more dramatic of the two, but equally without doubt...
...disproportionate result of the money and efforts expended on foreign missions.- (a) Many millions are contributed every year, all over the civilized world, whereas the number of converts is small.- (b) The number of converts yearly is counterbalanced one hundred and eighty-three times by the annual excess among non-christians of births over deaths: Canon Taylor, The Great Missionary Failure, Fortnightly Review, Vol. L (October, 1888).- (c) Most conversions are but temporary-(x) Either they lapse upon departure of the missionary to some other station-(y) Or they help to swell the reports of some more lavish missionary society...
...remedies for the present financial difficulties may be divided into two kinds, proximate and ultimate. The only proximate remedy is to get rid of some of the excess of currency. The best way in which to accomplish this would be to destroy the treasury notes of 1890. Something of this sort is going on, in fact. The U. S. treasury has begun to accumulate these notes and to store them away in vaults If the government had had a surplus revenue in 1893 and 1895 the solution of their difficulties would have been simple enough; for, after redeeming legal tender...
...consideration of first importance is that if our athletics are to be kept clear of excess and corruption they have got to be animated by the love of sport for its own sake. The desire for victory and the "honor" of a college should and may be a pure motive, but it is safe to say that nine tenths of the corruption in college athletics today is due to the domination of this motive, in a perverted form, over the pure love of sport. When, furthermore, the latter becomes obscured, teams are selected not from the large body...
...University Baseball Association has presented a creditable report of last season's finances, showing receipts over $2000 in excess of the expenditures...