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...History proves that goodness and virtue cannot be forced on a people by statutes or by machine guns." "It is impossible," says Brand Whitlock, "by the use of force, however strong or violent, to impose upon the moral sense of the people a feeling that a given act is wrong just because those whose prejudices it offends have been able to induce a legislature to enact it into what is called...
...first place the desire to effect some change in the social organization of Harvard must necessarily have come as the result of a feeling that there was something wrong, something lacking under the existing state of affairs. It has been said that the Harvard of the present is more a state of mind than anything else, a very apt description in view of the existing lack of anything which might be termed social organization. Every student gets what he can out of Harvard; very little attempt is made to help him. Thus...
...important thing now is what do YOU mean by the "House Plan"? It is important that undergraduates give this question their serious consideration. Those in charge may or may not be on the wrong track, but it is absolutely certain that in the long run a system which is not in accord with the peculiar development of Harvard can never be forced on an alert and thinking student body. "The House Plan" is as yet just a name. What it will be in fact depends upon the college itself, and most of all on the incoming Freshman classes. The class...
...controls the whole Black River Valley. The local aristocracy will not accept him, but he scorns them; it is his ambition to found his own line. His sons are a disappointment: Henry, the elder, is bookish, an Abolitionist to boot. He and his father rub each other the wrong way. Bascom is almost too much like the old man for his peace of mind: many a farmer husband hates him, and with reason. When Henry brings home his wife Rose from Boston, the old man takes to her at once; so does Bascom. When the Civil War breaks...
...hires a big hall, plasters his posters around town, delivers lectures on the newest developments in U. S. business. Sometimes he uses industrial cinemas donated by prominent manufacturing concerns. Sometimes he has his corps of assistants perform a little drama on the stage intended to show the right and wrong way to do business. Classic Marchand example of commercial wrongheadedness is the case of Wrigley's chewing-gum when first introduced into England. Britons would not chew until the word gum?which signified nothing but raw rubber?was changed to "sweet...