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...life making exceedingly accurate tables of the moon's behavior so that phases of the moon can be predicted accurately years in advance, has been appointed by the American Astronomical Society as Chairman of a Committee to inform the public concerning the eclipse -a very necessary function because of the proclivity of the press to garble accounts of things scientific. The unusual feature of the eclipse of 1925 is that it will be visible in an unusually populous portion of this continent. One or two eclipses occur annually*; but many take place in out-of-the-way places...
...Olympic Games are by no means the millenium; but neither are thy free for-all brawls. And the sooner these facts are realized, and sentiment and hysterical sensationalism done away with the better they will be able to function as it was intended they should...
...Golden Age. There was a threshold, at 1603 H Street, which was "sooner or later crossed by everybody who possessed real quality"-the threshold of Henry Adams, sardonic New Englander, connoisseur of life and all its arts, a man who said of himself: ". . . as far as he had a function, it was as stable-companion to statesmen, whether they liked it or not." Over the Adams threshold daily came John Hay, "the roving diplomat," Secretary of State to Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, Adams' great friend. Here came Clarence King, a professional geologist of rare spirit, who "knew more than...
...logical that students be brought into contact with the doctrines of the Legion and the Federation and with all doctrines. As long as organizations restrain themselves to the presentation of their programs simply as evidence in an undecided case, there can be no quarrel with their function. Unfortunately, organized bodies are possessed of no such altruism. Their chief interest seems to lie not in teaching students to think clearly but in teaching them to think as the organizations themselves think. Progress can never come if the force of young minds is consistently turned into certain preconceived channels. The Public School...
...were often only exercises in style. Harvard has long needed a periodical which should be a forum for open discussion. The CRIMSON, being a newspaper primarily, does not have the space for this. Clearly, then, the Advocate becomes the logical medium. It seems now to be fulfilling this function. The editorials in the November Advocate deal with vital problems and are not mere literary essays. Harvard is a great University and, like all great institutions, is subject to criticism. It is well that this criticism should come from within rather than from without. The absurdity of organized spontaneity has long...