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...combined with an idea of the unity of things; and a cautious sense of human fallibility in philosophic speculation combined with the willingness to run the risk of blundering. The one great feature of Guyau's speculation is his fearlessness. He does not immediately fear that he may be wrong but he "lets himself go" until he has reached his conclusion...
With one exception the editorials are of no value whatever. The one exception, however, is so excellent that it quite redeems the rest. It points out the difference between the students of today and those of a generation ago. "When anything goes wrong in the management of the University," it says, "when there is any reform called for in our elective pamphlet, in the arrangements of the gymnasium or the library, or even in the condition of the walks in the yard, we students do not attack the matter in a business-like or compelling manner. A generation ago when...
...disfigured throughout by underscorings and marginal lines, and even by marginal comments, which become in some cases little controversies between unknown critics. Aside from the distracting effect of these marks on the reader, causing him involuntarily to emphasize portions usually least important, the practice is morally wrong. No man has any right whatever to injure and deface property not his own. And no man would mark up a book borrowed from an individual if he expected ever to borrow another from the same person. It is the doing of a comparatively small number of men who are thoughtless, or careless...
Youngman, who spoke next, said that the imperfections in the present system of redemption do not prove that the policy of employing a limited amount of paper, covered by a gold reserve, is wrong in principle. Harvard supported, not the present system, but the present system reformed by simple remedies...
...duty entailed upon us as citizens of the United States to do everything in our power to oppose the war spirit so rampant now." Now if Mr. Warner or any other man can show us that the stand taken by the United States on this question is wrong he ought to do so and thus prove Mr. Roosevelt to be wrong. The trouble is that he fights shy of the main question...