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...Education at Harvard indicates the assumption by the Council of one of the most important of its legitimate functions. Final judgment on this action must, of course, be suspended until the new Committee has justified itself by its deeds. At least, the creation of such a body is proof of a healthy attitude on the part of undergraduates. It has often been asserted that one of the greatest troubles in the colleges lies with the students themselves. If this be true, then the fact that they are now beginning to realize that their development is primarily their own affair, speaks...
...contingent basis. Her brief said in part: "The professional services rendered by the petitioner included numerous conferences, communications, a trip to Washington from New York, elaborate investigation there and the discovery, by virtue of the attorney's effort and energy, of the proof necessary to establish and recover a claim of $9,000, which will, with interest, amount to the sum of $12,360. The compensation for professional services likewise included railroad expenses, hotel expenses and miscellaneous disbursements...
...difference between magicians and those who claim they can communicate with the spirits, is that the ormer admit the presence of fraud and deception. When spiritualists cannot readily produce their occult messages, they will turn to trickery, instead of postponing the seance to another time, which is sufficient proof of their inability...
Abject servility to examinations may be pardoned in a student, for, whenever it exists, it is proof positive that the student does not know what he is in college for. And how should he? Various motives, all more or less connected with tangible benefits conferred by a college degree, prompted his coming to Harvard. But once he is within the gates, the tangible vanishes. He deals with the subtle and elusive powers of mind and spirit, and in his uncertainty the definite requirements for examinations at least give him something solid to grasp. It is not strange, therefore, that...
Through the booths the public wandered, goggling and prying, shyly stroking, timidly querying about improved sugar filters, acid-proof sewer ware, glass-enameled steel goods ("No, madam," said the guardian of a huge sea-blue bowl of this material, "we did not make the goldfish"), monstrous cauldrons and crushers and carborundum refractories that industrial chemists use in their vast necromancies. A glum coterie stood before ranged vials of "industrial alcohols." Twin spirals of galvanized iron whirled at different speeds in glassed boxes, proving to the eye how much less hot air is lost from heat pipes when they are properly...