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...effectiveness of Mr. Day's arguments is rather shattered by a careful search of the university catalogues of the past four years, which falls to disclose any evidence that H. Payne Whitney, Jr., was ever registered with the class of 1921. Yale University might well be dumbfounded at the suggestion that one of its most loyal families--for the Whitneys are strictly and Eli clan had taken up the defense of Harvard in the Middle West...
...states: "The true boundary-line of the first amendment can be fixed only when Congress and the Courts realize that the principle on which speech is classified as lawful or unlawful involves the balancing against each other of two very important social interests, in public safety and in the search for truth." "In war-time, therefore, speech should be unrestricted by the censorship or by punishment, unless it is clearly liable to cause direct and dangerous interference with the conduct of the war." Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes says, in his famous decision: "The question in every case...
Through the invention by Mr. Sperry of a special high-intensity light, it has been possible to make the large search-lights for Army, Navy, and commercial uses of much less weight and, therefore, of greater mobility and usefulness. Mr. Sperry will trace the development and application of these lights and of the remarkable results obtained with them...
...strongly urged that everyone cooperate with the collectors by making a careful search and by turning over to them absolutely everything in the line of clothing (of all sorts and description), books and magazines for which they have no further use. Old coats, suits, shoes and text-books are especially desired, but anything will be welcomed...
...mature scholar sets forth briefly the results of long study, are extremely valuable for such students as have the necessary background to enable them to appreciate the content of these courses, but there is always a danger that such a course may be discovered by an enterprising undergraduate in search of something that he can pass. And such courses are not usually difficult to pass. As an example from another field one might cite the discovery of radium, which to the scientific man was a matter of profound significance affecting the whole fabric of physical science, but the newspaper reporter...