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...ability to translate at sight. This was a substitution of a test of power for a test of memory. This change was adopted in other requirements. Although this idea of acquiring power rather than knowledge has only been put in practice about fifteen years it has got a firm hold on the institutions of the West...
...understand that the question which the H. A. A. Management have to face is a hard one. They say that they must look at it practically. They say that the only way for the H. A. A. to carry on its athletics successfully is to have firm financial basis; and that the only way to get this is to force members to join the Association. Whether or not this is the only way to get sufficient funds remains to be seen; but the one principle at stake-which, in this instance, the H. A. A. has seemed to abandon...
...will come out all right." Have the emperor's trusting children come out all right? Instead of helping to solve the problems of socialism, the emperor's chancellor is raising appropriations to carry on a socialistic civil war. The foreign policy, which under Bismarck took the firm form of the Triple Alliance, and an understanding with Russia, has not been weakened by the emperor's clumsy visit to Rome. Germanic ideas are losing ground in Austria and the Pope has practically gone over to France...
France and Germany are changing places; France is becoming more stable; Germany is being racked with Socialism. Germany has yet to learn by defeat the lesson that a hereditary government cannot stand firm in modern times...
...rowing yet on fixed seats and are not feathering. The object of this is to secure long body swing with arms straight and a firm finish. The time has greatly improved of late and the men are getting more snap at the catch. It looks now as if those defects which have caused so much criticism on Harvard's rowing will be remedied...