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...come to be so that attractive looking posters are torn down, about as fast as they are put up, by those who wish to decorate their rooms. It is thought that anyone who stops to think of the object in advertising the games through these posters will hereafter resist the temptation to confiscate them until the games come off. In other words, the collectors of posters must surely have consideration enough for the teams to let others beside themselves know of the approaching games...
...that still others will follow suit. If owners will send for a list of classes which gives the prizes offered by the Kennel Club, and will take the pains to read the list of specials printed in the Boston morning papers of Jan. 7, few will be able to resist the temptation to go in for the honors. The show does not open till Feb. 2, and closes Feb. 5, but the entries for the show must all be filed at 167 Tremont Street by next Saturday, January...
Whitman's idea, when it takes political form, becomes democracy. His word to Americans is "Resist much; obey little." The great city is to him one where the populace rises in revolt to right abuses...
There are problems involved in the matter now so unexpectedly precipitated which may well occupy us in anxious study. Is the Monroe Doctrine, whatever it is, a principle, the slightest infringement of which we must resist, or is it only a doctirne upon which we may fall back when our interest requires; has it yet a place in international law, or is it simply an assertion which we offer to make good by force; is the Venezuela incident such a menace to our interest as calls for the assertion of it; if so, shall it be asserted to the point...
...nothing can more impede a rational conclusion, or more lower our dignity in our own eyes, than to approach such questions in a feverish heat, or to let professions of patriotism or savage praise of war frighten us away from a deliberate search for the right? It is to resist such impulses, and to insist on a critical study of all questions, that universities exist...