Word: accountants
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...tends to make a people uniform. They have said that the fundamental notion of democracy is equal opportunity, which brings uniformity of character. But equal opportunity is useless in bringing about uniformity, unless it is aided by equal capacity for seizing opportunity, and since equal capacity is impossible on account of differences in learning and talent, there is no such thing as equal opportunity. In our own country, a great, free democracy for more than a century, we have given a chance for equal opportunity, and yet we have a more prodigious difference in equality than any nation ever before...
President Eliot will deliver an address on "Diversity in Family, College, and State" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. This lecture was the one which President Eliot was to have given on March 7, but which was postponed on account of a conflict with the first of Dr. Figgis's lectures under the William Belden Noble Foundation. The lecture will be open to members of the Union only...
...should not the Monthly and the Advocate muck-rake each other? We offer a few suggestions for the Monthly's opening attack. It may point out that the account of the Council of Federated Clubs is informing but prosy; that the "Tale--Full of Sound and Fury" really signifies nothing, and is unspeakably silly; that in "An International Love Affair" a fair story is marred by an effort to be smart; that the "Three Moods of the Marsh" are vague and vapid. (Alliteration is always effective in muck-raking; the fitness of the words is less important). The critic...
...evidence for any event is to be found in the results which it produces. The evidence for the supernatural events connected with Christ's life is found partly in the historical account and partly in the history of the Church since that time. If we once accept the supernatural events connected with the life of Christ, logic will carry us to the Church and creed. Deny the supernatural, and, although we may emphasize our devotion, we are on the inclined plane that leads to scientific fatalism...
Chanler, who has been in the second Freshman boat on account of probation, will be put in the first crew today, a change which is expected to eliminate the present weakness at stroke. The second Freshman eight was sent out of the first time yesterday...