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...accord with Mr. Mellon, and it was darned poor judgment to express his views at this time. The people in my country are against reducing income taxes on large incomes...
...must ask for it himself, and, failing in this, he must use every effort of his own to obtain it in order to better execute the general plan, and by so doing aid the efforts of the leader. This is imperative and is believed to be much more in accord- ance with destroyer and fleet doctrine than to blindly follow the leader...
...Jean Henri Fabre, " the insects' Homer," whom Darwin called "a savant who thinks like a philosopher and writes like a poet." Fabre died in 1915 at the age of 92, but posthumous works are still coming out, enhancing the fame and affection which the world began to accord him only toward the end of his hardship-ridden life. The Life of the Scorpion is typical both of his method as a naturalist and of the charm of his style-a style which fascinates many a reader to whom a technical book on entomology would be anathema. The other insects...
...suggests further the revising of this rule to make it accord with the law of the game so that a coach, through the medium of substitutes sent into the game, may direct his team during the conflict...
...business, that it would be better if the undergraduates who were most concerned directed all athletic work, that in football in particular the emphasis has been disproportionate and the individual made a mere cog in a machine. But such arguments, however tempting, are idle unless they accord with facts. And the trend during the past two decades at least has been in the opposite direction. There are signs that even crew, which, in the past, has relied more than other sports upon undergraduate direction, has been forced by the logic of the situation to adopt the efficient system of control...