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After reading this pleasant book of travel you will be more prone to appreciate the latent qualities, and feel more kindly towards the sometimes stern, dogmatical figure on the rostrum in your lecture hall...
...these cannot be met without aid from the Wall Street bunch. This means eventually a conservative puppet party will come to power, since it will be backed by the sugar and fruit plantation owners. But how long could that party last? The forces which overthrew Machado will remain, latent perhaps if they are crushed this time, but ready, soon or late, to spring up when the occasion presents itself...
Affording the student interested in Mathematics ample opportunity to think for himself, this course in Mechanics given by Professor Osgood is one in which native ingenuity and mechanical insight are most useful; there are plenty of opportunities to develop latent reasoning powers in a subject which is altogether concrete. A student planning to enter any branch of engineering or physics will never regret the knowledge of elementary mechanics that may be gained in this course. Instruction is sometimes uninspiring, but the training and subject matter compensate for this defect...
...Director of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation, does not want his identification division considered a miraculous detective bureau. Says he, contrary to fictioneers: "Since the . . . system utilizes all ten fingers for the classification and filing of prints, it is extremely difficult for the bureau to identify latent fingerprints found at the scenes of crimes, unless some data with reference to the names of the suspect or suspects involved, with descriptive information, are supplied...
...judged upon the nature of the contact it given a man immediately or eventually with his fellows. Granted the all-pervasive importance of cultivating intellectual refinement and of developing intellectual power, means must be found for making these available primarily to those possessed of potential strength of character, of latent, if not active, attributes which make for personality, and of group consciousness which can dominate instinct for individual acquisitiveness at the expense, of the public weal. Likewise, credentials from our houses of learning ought to be withheld from those without evidence of interest in developing these qualities...