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...have nowhere to sell their produce and are compelled to burn or throw their grain into the water, and when the industrial capitalists, owing to the same fact, are compelled to cut down production, then a cause is easily created for humanitarian action and for philanthropy. . . . We, therefore, quite understand the noble feelings of Mr. Hughes, and do not doubt the humane feelings of the American Government...
...Committee on the Choice of Electives, desiring that all Freshmen should understand thoroughly the system of concentration and distribution, has arranged several speeches on this subject, to be given this morning at 9 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. President Lowell, Dean Greenough, and Professor G. H. Parker '87 will speak, as well as the secretary of the Committee on the Choice of Electives, Mr. E. A. Whitney '17, who will outline briefly the University's requirements in fields of concentration and in distribution. Attendance will be required of the whole Freshman class, with the exception of first-year...
...already know a good deal about that vocation. In addition to this, law is not sharply divided into fields which permit of separate analysis, and there seem to be no qualifications needed by those planing to enter the profession. Almost any man who is honest and energetic who can understand what is said to him and can make himself reasonably well understood, seems to be fitted for the work...
...expressed his noblest thoughts in the noblest literature of which he was capable; for several hundred years he has been equally careful to preserve for posterity a record of his intimate life, his amusements and his ambitions in the form of letters and journals. These records help us to understand how men thought, and to understand how men thought is to go more than half-way towards understanding the age in which they lived. The literature and the history of a period are so closely interwoven that it is almost impossible to separate them--in fact, until...
...know of no other means that we have right at hand that will so quickly inspire youth as those of the military when properly applied by the instructors who understand the peculiar psychology of the American youth, providing that the youth senses its leadership in the right spirit...