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...fixed sum. Still further, the purchase of athletic outfit can be made of one firm or store instead of with several, as it is at present. In this way, current expenses can be kept lower than they are now. We may expect also a solution of the training-table problem and the establishment of one which will prove more successful than the last...
...graduate department of the Yale psychological laboratory, has perfected an invention which is of unusual importance, not only in delicate investigations on mental reaction, but of considerable practical value to electricians generally. While experimenting on the subject of the distraction, he devised a machine which solves the difficult problem of making or breaking two or more electrical currents at the same instant. Hitherto Ewald's key for recording the time of mental reaction has been used, but it will be replaced in laboratory and practical use by the Bliss Multiple Key, which not only saves one-half the labor...
...draws men of great force whether good or bad because it demands men of force; it draws weak imperfect men because they think that in the cities they can depend on others. Work of most kinds can be done to better advantage in the cities than elsewhere. The problem then becomes not how we can do away with cities but how we can utilize them...
Then arose the problem of combining this liberty of a common brotherhood and this order, depending on loyalty to God. For order alone is despotism, and liberty independence is anarchy, unless combined with order. There is no independence, all men are dependent on one another, and the closer the bond the better men they are. The aim of our Revolution was to combine the various elements that had settled America's shores, from the Puritans in Massachusetts to the Huguenots in Carolina. The Rebellion made the negro our brother...
Professor West is quoted as saying that it was a problem which Yale had been try to solve for some time, and he considered it a subject for congratulation that Princeton had succeeded so well in the new arrangement...