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...convinced that one reason at least of the indifference of many men to the religious activities and opportunities of the University is that such activities have heretofore been associated in their minds with some form of compulsion. They do not understand the liberty which is here accorded to them and the relation of that liberty to their own highest advantage...
...these men are given to understand that they are responsible for the carrying out of the work coming under their departments, the desired distribution of responsibility will be obtained The chairman will be relieved of a great deal of work and worry, and things will run much more smoothly. In my report which I am handing on to the next chairman, I have given in detail just what work would come under each department. Of course the chairman will have final say in everything, and the other members should consult him in regard to their more important moves...
...have found the same theme. Labor is unjust, unreasonable, ignorant. I have worked for a year and a half as a factory hand. I belong to the working class. I know that a weary, body-deforming, mind-stupefying, soul-killing grind the worker's life is. I believe I understand the worker's view. Be says, "Give me a square deal and I shall give you a square deal." When capital gives the square deal the day of labor troubles is over. Until that square deal is given the labor question will always be before us. FRANCES T. RUXTER...
...special problem just mentioned has established, be of any practical use? Who can tell? Many years elapsed before Faraday's electrical experiments bore fruit in a practical electric lighting system and in the trolley car. The laws of nature can not be intelligently applied until they are understood. To understand them, however, many experiments bearing upon the fundamental nature of things must be made, and the unknown laws underlying the nature of elements are among the most fundamental of these laws of nature...
...present day students in the University understand the extent or the character of the service rendered to the University by John Harvard. This Englishman set sail for Massachusetts in 1637, after he had gained the titles of "Bachelor" and "Master" in Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, England. At once he settled near Boston in a district known at that time as Charlestowne and immediately became so interested in the college which had been established at Newtowne in the previous year by order of the General Court that he donated half of his estate, $3900, a large sum in those days...