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...credited to our nation throughout our entire history. Enormous sums of money have been spent, and yet there is practically no taint of corruption in connection with spending them. American officials on small salaries have gone down to that tropical isthmus, have made it so healthy as to be almost a health resort, and have expended huge sums of money with vigilant economy as well as with singular efficiency in the actual work on the canal, and have done it so that there is not even a suspicion of a dollar having been taken by any of them. Very, very...
...nations. It was this act of John Hay's which literally saved the court, because it put the machinery in motion and if this step had not been taken mere disuse would have caused the court to vanish out of existence in a very short space of time. Almost any nation is willing to pass a high-sounding resolution in favor of peace, and in any peace convention which is to do efficient work the difficult is not in passing such a resolution, but in preventing the passage of so many such resolutions as to make the convention appear foolish...
...National banks have almost the same legal rights as individuals, but they cannot act as trustees, purchase corporation stocks, make loans on real estate, or purchase real estate for others. They can be formed very easily, and are required to deposit certain sums with the government. The Comptroller's duty is to supervise them. The advantages of the system are that it supplies a uniform currency and a market for government bonds; it reduces the cost of exchange; provides safe banking facilities, and acts as a model for the state banks...
...between Rank in College and the Professional Schools" proves beyond question that unless one attains, by hard work, in some department of learning, high standing in college, he cannot hope for great success in his professional school. In the Law School the chance of obtaining a cum laude is almost ten times as great for a man with a summa cum laude in college as for a man who graduated with a plain degree; for the man with a magna cum laude it is six times as great, and for a man with a cum laude between three and four...
...member of that organization. The only possible argument for following the advice there given is to obtain a better constitution; and this is utterly improbable, as the present document has been considered and approved by entirely representative undergraduates as well as by President Lowell and Dean Wells. An almost insurmountable reason for disregarding the action of the Federated Clubs is that the plan suggested would confuse and disorganize the whole movement now on foot, and delay by ten days or two weeks the organization of the Council. As it is, several problems of importance await its consideration. Although the revised...