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...possible, he avoided reference to France's U. S. and British debts. He said that he was engaged in preparing the 1926 budget (the 1925 budget is still before the Senate) and that he aimed to produce one "which will be absolutely sound, as you English and Americans understand the word, which will meet every expenditure out of taxation and produce an impression of absolute sincerity." That, he said, was France's and his immediate task...
...case and pleasure, for self-expression, for security, for adventure, for popularity. Economics follows up in detail the consequences of men's desire for wealth. Philosophy traces the results of our desire to know ultimate truth. Biology tells us what will happen, if we yield to our urge to understand living matter. So it is with each great branch of study. Each acquaints us with the results of human desire in a particular field. Social ethics compares all these desires and traces their results so far as is necessary for a man to orient himself among them and to decide...
Particularly at this time such apparently unreasonable preference rankles in the Freshman mind, bringing forth a wall of protest from those who do not understand both sides of the case. There are in the University a certain number of teachers whose names are famous all over the country. Their courses are invariably widely advertised and over-supplied with students. It is only natural that they should be. It is undesirable, however, to build bigger class rooms and larger auditoriums. Courses must be limited and, when they are, it is the Senior, not the Freshman, who must be given precedence...
...Science has come the chief revelation of the will and purpose of God that has been given to our time. It is more important that the preacher understand the results of Science than that he associate with social revolution. The struggle of the future may be between Science and sentimentalism, and it is by no means certain that the right side will...
...Today, however," he continued, I understand that things are greatly changed. Advertisements are solicited in the regular business fashion and the routine of the office is eliminated by secretaries and bookkeepers. The duties of a candidate are practically nothing compared with what used to be given...