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...Review has lately appeared. The form and contents of the number are excellently thought out, and need but little comment. The editorial salutatory has been intrusted to Professor William Sloane, whose theme is "History and Democracy." He argues hopefully from the popularity of histories in this country against the notion that democracy is unfavorable to a high order of productiveness in this branch of belles lettres, or that a temporary exhaustion is manifest...
...Notion of the Beautiful, W. M. Fullerton...
...degenerating influence on the whole system, and beer drunkenness is the most degrading of all; it multiplies all forms of diseases and crimes. An idea has got abroad that drunkenness does not exist in wine producing countries. This is not true. The Germans, in spite of the popular notion that they are only beer drinkers, drink more heavy drink than any other people...
Owing to the carelessness with which material of this kind is always furnished, we would not want to lay too much stress upon them, but all the facts together, even though not entire proof, are indication that the popular notion of the relative amount of money spent by Harvard and Yale students is incorrect. There is strong reason to surmise that the average expenditure at Yale is greater than that at Harvard...
...rain-checks. That, however, the supporters of either University should think a team bound to throw away chances of success simply that they might see a game we cannot think. The sentiment of outsiders ought not to regulate intercollegiate contests; the sentiment of college men would be against the notion that a captain must jeopardize his chances in order to satisfy a crowd...