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...approved a single feature of the great canon of emergency legislation; the personnel record of the court, the general surprise at Chief Justice Hughes' position, indicate that the majority hinges upon him. The minority opinion of Justices Sutherland, Butler, McReynolds, and van Devanter might have been written in the nineteenth century; it expresses all the governmental and constitutional concepts with which each of them has been associated since his election to the court. No less uncompromising is the stand of Justices Brandeis and Cardozo. There is still no reason to believe that Justice Stone supported the majority decision on grounds...
...during the reading period. Many books are needed which the house library does not possess, but are reserved in the Widener reading room. The early closing naturally limits the volume and distribution of readers at this time: for example, there is only one copy of Croce's History of Nineteenth Century Europe available for a large course. The unlimited reading in History and Government is, of course, especially affected...
Apparently one of the chief bogey-men of the nineteenth century is to be refurbished. The Italian Chamber of Deputies was told by the committee on paid expenditures that "Japan today invades China; inspired by race hatred, she will plan tomorrow against white men." The reason for this revival of the Yellow Peril is, of course, the realization that the realistically minded Japanese have managed in spite of the Washington Treaty to build a field which is, in all likelihood, the equal of any in the world today, and the fact that Japanese commercial competition, particularly in the field...
...light has remained a faithful standby. Ready to doubt almost everything else, 20th Century scientists have not doubted that light always travels at the same speed through a vacuum. Last week from a sunny California valley came shocking news that "that most fundamental constant" is apparently a variable. Nineteenth Century theorists supposed that light was propagated through space by an all-pervading ether. The late great Albert Abraham Michelson, first U. S. Nobel Prizewinner in Science, reasoned that if this ether existed, then the motion of the earth through it should affect the velocity of light...
...Dunster House Bookshop now has on show finely bound books of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from collections of Augustan poets to the woodcut books of Clare Leighton...