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...themselves by sensational tactics, but because to most enlightened people it appeared that justice in Massachusetts was in grave danger of miscarrying. The courts, they thought, had perhaps been honest, had adhered to every rule and precedent, had obeyed the letter of the law to the end of the alphabet. But the very safeguards of the individual in this case, it seemed, had rendered justice in the broad sense impossible. Turning from the impotent courts, the advocates of Massachusetts justice--that part of them who thought it in danger--appealed to the executive branch to save the judiciary from itself...
...Varnished board decorated with the alphabet, the ten digits and the words "Yes" and "No," upon which, with a planchette (little table), amateurs of spiritualism received supposed psychic communications...
Many professors, indeed, admit the defliciencies of tests. The difficulty is to find a substitute medium for translating intelligence and industry into the official alphabet. And in determining grades it would seem necessary always to place some reliance upon examinations. But this necessity should by no means prove a barrier to other forms of cultural inquisition...
...considers himself a literary oak or not, can do much worse than to hear Professor Tozzer talk about the acorns of our language. At 9 o'clock this morning, he will lecture in the Semitic Museum in Anthropology I on the origin of writing and the beginnings of our alphabet...
...collection of objects coming from or relating to the Semitic stock of peoples. The chief representatives of this stock are Arabians, Arameans, Assyrians, Babylonians, Hebrews, and Phoenicians. The Semites were among the earliest peoples to rise to the state of civilized life. They have given to the world the alphabet, monotheism, three great religions, and three great books of religions. So vital and pervasive have these contributions been that, without a knowledge of their source, a large part of modern civilization is unintelligible...