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...father held, and I still hold with the great English moralist Acton that "happily for society" we may dismiss the supposition that women have sexual feelings as "a vile aspersion...
...destroyers, such an innocent ignorance cannot be ascribed to the English critic of America. The thoughts of the educated Englishman of 1853 and of 1928 on the Harvard of each year have a certain piquance of their own, as they spring from the minds of Emerich Edward Dalberg, Baron Acton, who visited the University in the year of the great New York Exhibition, and John A. Benn, young Englishman who studied a year at Princeton before writing his study of the American college curriculum, "Columbus Undergraduate...
Aside from the happy freshness of such a belief, there is savor in comparison of Mr. Benn's convictions with those of Baron Acton, who, according to the current Commonweal, seventy-five years ago wrote in his diary of the Harvard curriculum...
Undergraduates who wish to write a dissertation in Greek may band in a translation of a part of Acton's "History of Freedom" into Attic Greek and for those writing in Latin a translation into that language of a portion of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is required. A prize of $50 for the best of each of these translations will be awarded. Holders of degrees must write an original essay in either Latin or Greek on any subject chosen by the competitor. The best essay will receive...
Last week, on the broad Canberra plain, the new Parliament House stood completed, smelling strongly of fresh paint and plaster. Teeming were the Canberra Hotel ("finest in the Southern Hemisphere"), the Ainslee, the Kurrajong, the Acton Hotel, and the three large boarding hotels which the Government has erected for civil servants until their cottages and houses are finished...