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...deal with larger forces than the individual. Compromise is obtained by means of the trial, which may be conducted according to the laws of combat, by oath, or by arbitration. In a trial by combat, the opponents settle their differences in the court room. If they happen to be of different sexes, the man is hampered by bonds. In a trial by oaths, the oaths were made to be very difficult, a mere slip of the tongue in stating them being enough to convict the swearer. Not only veracity, but the strength of the oath was taken into account...
This policy would have the following advantages: (1) it would fix responsibility for economy and for the assignment of aid to the teams where it belongs, with the graduate manager and Athletic Committee; (2) it would avoid discrimination in favor of the sports that happen to draw large crowds; (3) the cost of tickets would be reduced, and the unequal burden of subscriptions would be taken off managers, who now have to devote a lot of valuable time to them, and off subscribers, who give grudgingly perhaps, or beyond their means because asked by a personal friend; (4) more...
...first states that, although inequalities in ability exist and give rise to inventions, these should be common property, and not exclusively a source of wealth to the few who happen to find them. Mr. Mallock showed that such intricate inventions as are frequent nowadays would be of no use to men of limited capacity, as they could not understand their uses. Only minds fitted by education can profit by extensive discoveries...
...scene of the play is laid in Madrid, Spain. The characters, with one or two exceptions, are American summer tourists, who happen to meet in Madrid. The principal of the comedy is Percy Winterbottom, a Harvard undergraduate. The music, which is entirely original, has been composed in imitation of Spanish music. There will be several characteristic Spanish dances, and the whole score is calculated to give much of the necessary local color to the comedy...
...with other events. He said that it was rather his habit, after public days in Boston, to take a look in at the Cambridge police-court next day, to see that his boys, if in any trouble, had justice done them; and that in most cases, as would doubtless happen in this, the mere fact of arrest would be sufficient punishment. All that I could see of his relations to the students proved the hold he had on them in this way and, when it came to sterner discipline, I knew one or two events which showed me that this...