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...strange to speak on such a sordid theme as the care of property, let it be remembered that the social relations brought about by the new forms of property lie at the basis of most of the intricate problems of modern life, and that the straight path to a righteous solution of those problems lies in a sense of duty on the part of the possessor. It is the habit of the day to decry loudly the iniquity of others, to assume that in attacking them we perform our public duty; that by reforming them we fulfill the moral...
...these amazing days, when we no longer respond to the sight of a friend's name on a theatre program with that emotional thrill compounded of surprise and righteous satisfaction at successful prophecy,--so commonplace a thing it now is to behold some vanished Tom, Dick or Harry's fame glowing above the play-house door,--it may be pertinent to ask, where are the Harvard Poets? In the past we sought them in the pleasant pages of the Monthly, and found them there, Moody, Mackaye, Carpenter, and Hunt; today they are gone, and the bubbling Castalian spring of college...
...classroom morality would be raised accordingly. Such a public opinion as would be raised against cheating in examinations by the introduction of the honor system would, we believe, extend at the same time to the matter of theses: It would not be a negative feeling against dishonesty, but a righteous indignation which would cost an offender his social position if not his place as a member of the University...
...civilized world has come to believe in the freedom of inquiry in all fields, as the best means of progress in knowledge, in manners and in righteous living. Now the field of inquiry from which within the last 60 years mankind has received the largest visible, tangible, concrete, demonstrable benefits is in the field of medical research applied in the medical and surgical art and in sanitary science. If freedom of inquiry be in general expedient and righteous, should not inquiry be free in this most productive of all fields? To secure and maintain this freedom against the assaults...
...settled again. Every spring we see the spontaneous applause of the earlier part of the season change into concerted cheering under the direction of numerous cheer-leaders, who drag the last breaths from the supporters of the team in a frenzied endeavor to help bring about a victory. However righteous we may pretend to be it cannot be denied that this cheering is calculated to unnerve the opposing nine as much as it is to support the university team. In the seventh inning when the score is very close, the applause at an error of the visitors is almost...