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...appropriation made by the Harvard Corporation from the unrestricted funds left to the University by the late Paul C. Keith. The Corporation believed that no better use of this bequest could be made than to devote a part of it to needs of the Chemical Department. In the judgment of the Corporation, these were the primary needs of the University...
...Salmon River country, south of Lewiston, Idaho, a skeleton of a woman more than eight feet in height was discovered in a cliff. This also seemed to belong to an herbivorous race. Scientists are reserved in their judgment until it has been examined by Smithsonian experts...
...Under such circumstances there must inevitably occur mistakes in judgment, instances of favoritism and sporadic cases of actual graft. The committee will have no difficulty in finding cases of each kind. But they signify nothing unless there is reason to believe that graft and favoritism are widespread and chronic in the work of the Bureau...
...appointment of Forbes as head of the Veterans' Bureau and Fall as Secretary of the Interior have proved to be terrible mistakes; while the selection of Mr. Daugherty as Attorney General seems to me to have been a grave error in judgment...
...Ring Lardner. He covers the field of philosophers, poets, wits, essayists. His estimates are tempered with sympathy, humor, real understanding. He praises and blames ; weighs faults against virtues. One reads on absorbedly for some time before one becomes subtly conscious that no final criticism has been made, no judgment pronounced. In the last chapter one discovers Mr. Van Doren's friendly confession: "He still insists that his usefulness, if he has any, must be based upon the opportunity which he affords for unprofessional readers, with his professional help, to make up their own minds about the authors whom...