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...author failed through the attempt to make the commonplace suggest the emotional. Mr. Boyd loses his laurels by pure timidity. No doubt one says less than he means, and it is an offense to open the heart; but Mr. Boyd plods with matter of fact foot along a path where Merrick would have sung with "voice memorial". Perhaps it is not timidity that led Mr. Boyd astray; he sinned by rushing in where genius might have trod...
...corollary of unstable and unhealthy conditions. But Dr. Gray has raised a problem. If prosperity and content lead to enfeebled intellects, if education is not great enough to force upon the mind of students the problems of wrong and un-justice that remain, America is following the primrose path to ruin...
...Schaeffer of the Physics Department will address the weekly meeting of the Physical Colloquium this afternoon at five o'clock in room 3 of the Jafferson Physical Laboratory. His subject will be "Townsend's Experiment on the Mean Free Path of Electrons...
...strictly American undertaking by which the good faith of the United States may be judged. The political and economic difficulties which face the concessionaires are perhaps insurmountable, and it is therefore the more unfortunate that America's commercial reputation is involved. There seems to be no practical path out of this tangle of politics and business; but two courses may be adopted. Either the United States must take a leaf from the English program of conducting foreign business, or she must make clear to the Turkish government that the Chester concession is not supported by the United States government...
...discussion of a question that one time would have started armies on the campaign. In some parts of this the author is at his best; common as the doing of advise to graduating classes has become, here is a fresh note, a voice that extols the straight and narrow path with gracious sincerity and compelling logic. And similarly, the address on Elisha Benjamin Andrews, one time president of Brown University, gives opportunity for the exercise of Mr. Meiklejohn's talent for description of character and achievement; it is a character sketch of real merit. In "The Machine City", an address...