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...considering how funds can be raised with the least interference with the moral and material development of the citizen, we must eliminate the objectionable methods and reduce the problem to its simplest form. The first principle is that all inquisitorial and arbitrary methods are abhorrent to the people and inconsistent with the maintenance of honor and freedom, for they foster selfishness and encourage perjury. The second principle is that no power should tax property out of its own territory and out of reach of its protection. Some property in this country is taxed both where it is and where...
...supposition that self-interest is the ruling human motive, is the greater part of economical laws founded. It is not difficult to see the inevitable result of the system of self interest, the weakest perishing, the strongest leading a life of little more than nervous prosperity. The problem is to bring to the hearts of men the fact that disregard of ethics is the cause of earthly misery. Social disorder can be changed to happiness; there is a way out; ethics gives no plans, but only principles, the principle of generosity instead of self-love. Ethics does not prophecy...
...lightness and lose nothing in utility by using wood instead of steel. The idea of this cross-bracing is simply this: a shell being made so extremely light it must depend mainly for its strength on the even balance of the strains to which it is subjected. The problem of making a sculling toat is simplified by the fact that the outriggers are exactly opposite each other and the strains equal. But in eight oars the outriggers are not opposite but alternate so that the strains put upon the stroke and bow oars are not balanced by any corresponding strains...
...Sonth" was read by Mr. Hugh McCulloch. Mr. Keerns, president of the Yale Southern club spoke about the new Yale Southern club which is modeled after the Harvard Southern club. Professor Keener of the Law school made an address in which he offered a solution of the race problem...
...include the whole sky, and thus give them a completeness unattainable at any single station. A second expedition to Southern California furnishes a mountain station under climatic conditions much superior to those of the eastern portion of the United States, and promises to be a satisfactory solution of the problem contemplated by Mr. Boyden in his will, namely, the study of the solar eclipse. All these plans greatly increase the work accomplished by the observatory and yet, notwithstanding the large addition to its resources, the entire income has been expended in nearly all of its departments...