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Throughout, in composition the architect should hold truth before him as the ideal which he is striving to attain, he should never resort to constructive trickery. A bad idea suppressed is a triumph for the good...
Very soon the men who have neglected their college work will be forced by the nearness of the mid-year examinations to resort to some means for acquiring sufficient knowledge to pass the test and the usual business of seminars and tutoring will be in full blast. It is pertinent just at this time, befor the trouble has actually begun, to consider these seminars and to see whether they are not assuming dangerous proportions...
...Government ownership and management is at present feasible and practicable. N. A. Review, vol. 142: 227 (Field). (a) Government could resort to paralleling. (b) It has right of eminent domain. (c) Essick machine...
...hissing and stamping, there is but one course of action - that is to close the gallery to visitors. It does not reflect much credit on the better side of a man's nature, if, after making a reasonable appeal to him not to abuse a privilege, one has to resort to the only alternative, that of taking it from him. In this case, however, he is depriving not himself alone, but many others a great deal worthier than he. Yet unless the better element in Memorial Hall can succeed in overcoming this objectionable tendency on the part of the others...
...best way of applying strength to an oar; but when one reflects that distinguished physicians recommend certain remedies and other equally renowned doctors denounce the same remedies one is forced to confess that the only scientific way to decide upon the truth of various theories is to resort to scientific study and experiment...