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...find it a useful experience. Familiarity with local political conditions is not necessary; in fact, some of the best reports made for the Good Government League in former years have been prepared by men of other States, who had the advantage at the outset of complete freedom from political bias...
...find it a useful experience. Familiarity with local political conditions is not necessary; in fact, some of the best reports made for the Good Government League in former years have been prepared by men from other states, who had the advantage at the outset of complete freedom from political bias...
...account of this picturesque personage, whose true place in our history has always been a disputed question. The book does not enter the field of minute detail and criticism; it is "for those who would rather understand than judge him." Mr. Brown writes of his character charitably but without bias; he does not attempt to diagnose his faults or condone his vices, but he does not dwell upon them with distorting emphasis. The Creek and Seminole wars, the battle of New Orleans, the history of Jackson in politics are entertamingly fold and one comes partly to understand that influence which...
...idealize its subject in many ways, so as to bring out its tendency or meaning. But photography, like memory, only transforms things unintentionally and because it can not help itself. The cause of any change here is a weakness in the machinery of reproduction; it cannot be an imaginative bias, since the reproduction is by a machine, not by a mind subject to instincts and having natural ideas. It is accordingly a mistake to associate photography with creative art or try to make it imitate the processes of creative art. Vague, deceptive or idealized memory or history is bad. These...
...Harvard ends, Cochrane and Richardson, which was of a high order, and constantly stopped the gains of the opposing team. Other inaccuracies in the account showed an ignorance of the personnel of the Harvard players on the part of the writer, if it did not exhibit a bias against them. The weights of the two teams are given below...