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...wondered at that Asiatics look askance at the League of Nations and want more proof that it will be a help rather than their undoer? If the present attitude toward Asiatics does not change then Asia for Asiatics will be a justifiable slogan...
...east was a morning to be feared, since the light of Venus possessed the power to slay. If the last item implies the existence of what we should call superstition among the Mayas, their calendar, as recently explained and harmonized by Herbert J. Spinden of Harvard, is full proof of their sophistication in at least one realm of science. Dr. Spinden's researches, first announced by the Peabody Museum two years ago and new completed, seem to us quite as romantic as any ever undertaken by an archaeologist. --The Nation...
...Club of Boston and the University Team are tied for first place. Each team has won 90 per cent, of its matches. The Lincoln's Inn Society is tied for second place with Newton Center having won 80 per cent, of its matches. The Lincoln's Inn Society gave proof of its strength last week when in Class C its team defeated the Weston Squash Racquets Courts by a score of four...
Biographers of this type claim to have established a school of analytical biography. They devote themselves to the principle that if Cesar Borgin is thought a villain and Nell Gwyn no better than she might have been, no more proof is needed for the theses that Borgia was an upstanding Christian gentleman, and Mistress Gwyn a cheerful creature with no harm in her at all. Thus these moderns display their lack of prejudice by becoming hide-bound on the unpopular side of any given question. Their purpose is clear enough. A customary treatment of Stevenson, for instance, would startle...
...departments of Harvard education are now supported by endowments except athletics sufficient proof that alumni are interested in Harvard education merely as such. Why should athletics be disinherited and thrown upon their own support for existence? Science and philosophy are not so treated. Surely this distinction is made because athletics have been looked upon as not constituting an integral part of the educational process. Under the present system coaches feel constant pressure to concentrate upon a few men in order to produce winning teams. Athletics have not been general enough to justify an endowment. As Mr. Arthur Howe, former Yale...