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...Liberalism" is the subject chosen by Professor-emeritus George Herbert Palmer '64, when he addresses the organization on Sunday, November 4. Professor Palmer was formerly of the English Department and is the author of "The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer", "The Problem of Freedom", "Self Cultivation in English", and other books...
...ideal; while the publications have their own buildings and the musical clubs their rooms, the Union can not hope to be the kind of centre that its founder conceived. But again there has been partial success: lectures, dinners, and committee meetings testify to that. There remains only the problem of the political and "activity" clubs which are anxious to find some centre. But in such cases, with their eyes always on the problem of increasing the club membership, those in charge have generally applied the so-called "forty per cent rule" which has curtailed the use of the Union...
Meanwhile if the President and the Senate do not see fit to attack the problem at its source, they had best leave well enough alone, however many shouting Magnus Johnsons may leap up in the wheat states. The Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railroads, two of the principal wheat carriers, are already in a shaky financial condition through unprofitable wheat traffic. That the results of lower rates are not viewed with pleasure is known by the fact that the common stock of these companies took a "paid drop of several points on the New York Stock Exchange when the President...
Statistics are sometimes inconclusive, but always interesting in the consideration of any problem. In a recent number of the Harvard Graduates Magazine there has appeared a flock of figures which seem to be both. They have been compiled by ex-president Thwing of Western Reserve University, now president of the United Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa, and bear upon the past records of men who have taken honors in the Harvard Law School during the last half-century. The records which he chooses are clearly typical, and represent the mark of nearly five-hundred of these wise...
...great problem is that of ridding the world of the kind of thought that is largely responsible for certain evil conditions," said Professor Manley O. Hudson, L. '10 in his address at the Foreign Students reception last evening in the ballroom of the Phillips Brooks House. "Such a condition," he continued, "is the constant menace to every man of being called from industrial occupations to arms to answer a call to settle some political quarrel. Most of the men in this room have seen students leave laboratories and study halls to go to the front to kill other men, many...