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...afterwards--when the three or four mile limit was passed, the essential thing was not done. That is, the town authorities, the community representatives, did not cause the street car system to ramify over the old and the new town--over the entire town--in the same manner that the street system alone had formerly done. Instead, the matter was left to private interests. City transit was left to be exploited as a business proposition. Profit from the transit service became the principal consideration. In respect to City transit, this was the original sin--it was a sin of omission...
...rather persistent rumors that the Administration was seriously considering the recognition of the Soviets have been killed by the recent statements of Secretary Hughes who has set forth our stand in a determined and logical manner. International law demands, in brief, that a government must pay its debts, protect foreigners, and conform to civilized customs in general; and it is with these facts in mind that Mr. Hughes outlines in clear terms what Lenine must accomplish to gain recognition from the United States...
...about the Square; every fall the same business is reopened even more successfully by the same generous and thoughtful business men. In this way the demands for furniture which face every Freshman class as it is cast forth from it furnished suites are cared for in a most efficient manner. Yet in spite of the efficiency of the method there is something distinctly depressing in paying twenty dollars for a second-hand desk in the fall, which never could have brought more than five or ten to the Senior who hurriedly entrusted it to his janitor the preceding spring...
...first article on Harvard; wherein he indicates the present problem of the University is to take "the unit of education, the Boy," and "make out of him all that it is possible to make." Purpose such as this implies that the students must not be classified in any such manner as to label them in fact or in effect, the "eager" and the "unwilling"; but the suggestion that all be treated as of the "eager" class is, or ought to be, a fundamental principle of the college. Cortainly that great freedom given the individual, here implies confidence in the good...
...most accurate measurements ever made of the manner in which the optic nerve transmits nerve impulses from the eyes to the brain have been made recently at the laboratories of the Medical School and have thrown new light on the laws governing the mechanism of vision...