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Under the direction of the Department of History and Literature Professor J. L. Lowes and Irving Babbitt will speak at the Master's Lodgings of Kirkland House on Thursday at 8 o'clock on the Bible and Shakespeare examinations for concentrators in History and Literature...
...gods sent to relieve the tedium of depression and that irritating Eastern imbroglio. This is after all "that best of all possible worlds" in which everything is designed to a certain end. Let T. N. T. be the cathartic necessary to purge the American system, for, as Professor Babbitt would have it, Mr. Hadley has "poured his baby out with the bath...
Applied to university teaching, Dr. Count's appeal has a much wider application. A Harvard student should have sufficient discretion to judge the comparative values of the different theories presented him. It is safe for Professor Babbitt to expound the wonders of Humanism as long as Professor Lowes continues to defend the Romantics. The student will progress further towards forming a philosophy of his own in this way, than by listening to any one man, no matter how open-minded. But in a small college this plan presents its dangers. There, it is too expedient for an instructor to share...
...Hugh Bancroft, Mrs. Richard M. Saltonstall, Mrs. William Dana Orcutt, Mrs. Charles T. Collens, Mrs. Steven W. Sleeper, Mrs. Guy Currier, Mrs. George L. Paine, Mrs. Charles Peabody, Mrs. Otis Weld Richardson, Mrs. Horace Morison, Mrs. C. Nichols Greene, Mrs. Carl P. Dennett, Mrs. William C. Cox, Mrs. Irving Babbitt, Mrs. Bliss Perry, and Mrs. Edward Ingraham...
During the War many a company declared "Red Cross Dividends." Last week National Lead Co. (Dutch Boy white lead, Babbitt metal, paint products) surprised stockholders with an extra dividend of 25? a share. "The directors feel," explained President Edward Joel Cornish, "that they have no right to give away the funds of the company . . . towards relief of unemployed. ... By declaring an extra dividend we give the money directly to the stockholders with the request, however, that they in turn pass it along. There is no obligation to do so and if the stockholders themselves need the money it is theirs...