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...assert that an increase in tariff of a cent a pound causes an advance of 6 to 8 cents a pound in the price of sugar is to give utterance to clotted nonsense...
...There is a certain, indefinite, indescribable quality that the experienced amateur possesses that the professional by necessity loses. And that something is often a desirable thing. It is particularly so when an ensemble playing that shows no professional stress on the individual is achieved. It would be ridiculous to assert that the two plays are in every case played better or as well as they would be in the hands of professionals. But it is sound to say that the general playing, the stress on the play as the prime object of interest, and the cooperative work...
ILLINOIS: A conference of representatives of the Great Lakes states was held in Chicago to consider the Great Lakes-to-Gulf waterway which Illinois is constructing. Wisconsin and Michigan are opposed to it because they state it will lower the level of the Great Lakes, which, as they assert, has already fallen four inches because of the Chicago drainage canal. Illinois experts reply that the lowering of the lakes was due to shortage of rainfall...
...terms of literal equality with men, would abrogate nearly all the rights and immunities that women have won in industry, in domestic relations, and as child-bearers, after a continuous struggle of half a century. Women leaders opposed to the extremist tactics of the National Women's Party assert that because of the fundamental and inescapable differences between men and women in physique, endurance, and social function, the relinquishment of women's privileges would plunge them back into chattel slavery-a slavery dictated not by the superior authority of men, as formerly, but by the logic of economic...
...because none of his colleagues is learned enough to examine him. However, that may be, perhaps his lack of this burdensome dignity has helped to keep him free from the taint of pedantry and make him and entertaining lecturer in spite of his scholarship. It is safe to assert that his public lectures on the five great Shaksperian tragedies, to be given in Sanders Theatre this month will be much more than mere instructive discourses. With his large resources of critical knowledge, and his faculty for shrewd comment, he will be able to crowd into each talk material that...