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...markings which Mr. Lowell had noted at Flagstaff, whether they are continuous, as he assumes, or in reality discontinuous, as other astronomers assert, certainly exist, and Mr. Lowell's researches had the merit of being a positive and constructive theory concerning them, which he was willing to maintain against the world's denial. At all events, the observatory at Flagstaff remains, to be not only a monument to his spirit and his zeal, but to be also the lasting and the best means of demonstrating whether he was right or wrong. And in the last analysis, Mr. Lowell himself would...
...contemporary history similar to the one which produced such interesting and pathetic results a year ago, was given last week in the course in government 1 conducted by Professor Hormell. The course is comprised of freshman and sophomores, and the second year men came out just enough ahead to maintain their dignity and prove that one year had not been wasted...
...institutions are popularly known, one can readily see that Harvard no longer has an international margin due to numbers alone. There are millions of people who have never heard of Harvard. It is to these that the name of the University must be introduced, if the latter is to maintain her lead, for did not Pennsylvania show from her registration books that she draws more students from a greater variety of countries than...
...will greatly depend upon the government to lend a hearty support to her own capitalists in their attempt to establish "a relation that would enable the United States to have an equal voice with the five other powers in guiding the development of Chin" and "to maintain the open door in her trade with that country." At the same time she will be doing the Chinese people a great service which I can assure any and every American they will never forget...
...ever sought to interrupt, but he has, in doing it, lowered America in the eyes of the world to a point which no civilized Caucasian nation ever reached before. The American government has not one friend among the peoples of the world today, and those who dare to maintain that American ideals are as sound as they ever were can only plead that the present administration does not represent the true state of public opinion in the country. If we are not to stand self-confessed as willing to surrender to anyone who may threaten us, be they labor leaders...