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...Large cities." it says, "are evidently finding they cannot afford to do without city planning, and some small towns are wise enough to begin locking the door before the proverbial horse shall be stolen. The competitive instinct for securing municipal advantages is thoroughly aroused in many quarters. Before long it will be easier to make a list of the principal cities which are laggards in city planning than to review the accomplishments of those which are active...
...Human inheritance, if fully understood and properly controlled, would do away with much of our social maladjustment", declared Professor G. B. Parker '89, speaking yesterday afternoon in New Lecture Hall, in the second lecture of the Radcliffe Endowment Fund course. Explaining the nature of organic inheritance and instinct, the speaker contrasted these to our social inheritance and higher intellectual development, which we gain from education...
Psychologists credit man with the instinct of acquisitiveness, and never was psychology better vindicated than by those same facts and by stamp collecting in general. Even the Jackdaw of Rheims was no more given to this acquisitiveness than the Philatelists who amassed a collection of New Zealand stamps worth, a hundred-thousand dollars. So firmly is the hobby, or the fad, rooted in human nature that a firm of stamp dealers was willing to give practically that amount for the collection in a recent sale. And a similar Swiss firm has sent its principal to this country and widely advertised...
...customary mellifiuous language, he has appealed to the sporting instinct of Americans, (Don't hit a man when he's down). He is asking us to interfere with regard to France's demands for reparations, to which she has a perfect right, and which are long overdue. Let us hope that our sporting instinct in this case will not push us to actions which would cause unlimited trouble for ourselves and for other nations in the future. In 1914 our sporting instinct was not strong enough to make us side with a downtrodden nation with which every principle of honor...
Besides, monitors cannot be expected to be omniscient. Even in our civilized community, there are still an unscrupulous few whose slogan is "outs at any cost". As long as the instinct to "get away with something" remains, the monitor's task will be a thankless one and consistent impartiality cannot be expected...