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...Liberalism must be promoted in the United States for two purposes," the speaker declared, in introducing his talk on the international situation; "first, to rid freedom of the restraints imposed upon it by the abnormal conditions during the war period; and, second, to help Americans to understand the terrible conditions in Europe. We all know the extent to which personal freedom was restricted in the United States and that we have not yet been freed from this tendency, but few realize the unhappiness, discontent, and hato which are everywhere in Europe today. The economic warfare now being waged in these...
...elements of interest to modern readers in his work. Professor Lowes stated that the uninteresting and austere parts of Milton's life have been impressed upon our minds, and that this has had a deadening effect on our desire to read his writings, but declared that, if students could rid themselves of this natural antipathy, they would find in Milton much delightful romance...
People can be classified under three heads, which will get rid of the objectionable "fascinating". There are "linnets" (this is highly complimentary and has a pleasanter sound than "fascinating" anyway); there are 'pones" (this combines all the contemptuousness of "drone" with the heavy odium of "prune"); and there are "grusks" (any man would curl up and wither if he were called a "grusk" out of a clear...
What course must the Senior pursue in order to get rid of his household effects in the most efficient way? The natural impulse is to take them to the man for whom they seem to be logically intended--the second-hand furniture dealer. And this thought-would surely be uppermost in the minds of those who are leaving, were it not that Economics A had so forcibly impressed upon them the enormous advantage of doing away with the middleman. So another course suggests itself: let the departing Senior dispose of his furniture directly to the Sophomore...
...system of proportional representation--and there are several besides the Hare--gets rid of both these evils by combining the good points of the two old systems and rejecting their bad ones. P. R. simply throws several single-member districts together into one electing several members, but it allows each voter to cast only one vote. This results in giving all the voters in the district an equal share in the election of the several members and in giving each party or united element the number of seats it deserves...