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...reminiscences, largely because, like many sons, Kazuo Koizumi overestimates the extent of the world's familiarity with his father's career. Eleven years old when his father died, Kazuo Koizumi writes of him with affection and candor, draws a portrait of a strict, sensitive, nervous, sometimes self-pitying man who was dominated by fear of an early death, tells an occasional anecdote that throws a cold realistic light on the romance of Hearn's expatriation and marriage. That the son has thought deeply about his father's career and character is readily apparent from the pages...
...time he had become a Japanese citizen Hearn, no longer a bohemian, insisted that "no boy or girl should ever be left unguarded." His son recalls him as too strict in his morality, declares that at the sight of some modern customs he "would surely have lost consciousness...
...hearing went to press with only the racy testimony of the complainants. Alice Puddifoot sued eight of the papers for libel. U. S. editors, reading the results of the trial last week, were bug-eyed with amazement at the manner in which British courts hold the British Press to strict accountability in the handling of late news...
...selection of men who are to become tutors is to a great extent the responsibility of the various departments. Reorganization costs money, more conscientious attention to the needs of undergraduates under the tutorial system may be increasingly expensive. Here again, to reiterate, is not the place for strict economy...
...natural sciences, before he was offered the chair of political economy at Lausanne in 1894. The untrained U. S. reader who opens The Mind and Society finds himself in a thicket of abstract statements and scholarly quotations, quickly discovers that Pareto's first purpose is to establish a strict political realism, to make sociology a pure science, comparable to astronomy or mathematics. Says the Italian professor: "We are in no sense intending ... to exalt logic and experience to a greater power and majesty than dogmas accepted by sentiment. Our aim is to distinguish, not to compare, and much less...