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Minna Harris is a triumph of craftsmanship. The entire book centers about her. She is not always on the scene but her presence is everywhere felt. It is not only that all the rest of the characters depend on her economically but that she furnishes a great deal of the motive force behind the action. I, for one, amperfectly convinced that Minna's creator has done justice in bringing her back to the shanty after the temptation of marriage. Like Jenny, Grandma and Amy, Minna belongs in the Schlaraffenland which she has done so much to create...
...through the football team, with the result that large endowment funds and winning elevens tend to go hand and hand. Even if the College believes their views wrong, it is often impolitic to disregard them." There is absolutely no support whatever for the statement that at Harvard large endowments depend on winning football teams. The Harvard endowment steadily increased absolutely as well as relatively until the depression. Yet our football teams remained more or less constant in the quality of their playing during this period. (Whether this is true of all universities is not our concern...
...Negroes of Durham, N, C. call it "Mr. Duke's Univussity." Durham newsfolk who depend on it for frequent stories call it a "three-ring circus." One ring in the Duke University tent which has something going on all the time is the Department of Psychology. That department is headed by aging, idealistic, contentious Professor William McDougall, emphatic exponent of Lamarckism (inheritance of acquired characteristics); it publishes Character and Personality ("An International Quarterly for Psychodiagnostics and Allied Studies"); and for four years it has nurtured the most significant and apparently the most cold-blooded scientific attack ever made...
...within 10% of those in 1929. But this year more than ever canvassers have met the stock protest: "Why should I give to private charity when I'm being taxed for government relief?" Stock answer: The Government supplies only life's bare necessities. On private charity still depend such important extras as character-building and leisure-time services, neighborhood centres, camps, guidance clinics, health bureaus...
...assumption of the public that the Court's decisions depend almost wholly on the private political likes of the Justices is a gross exaggeration. As Justice Cardozo pointed out in an essay, the job of the courts is to apply the Constitution and the law in cases where they are obviously meant to apply. In other cases it may be necessary for the Court to search for the intent that was behind a law to fit a particular case. Then interpretation comes into play. It comes still more into prominence when a case arises which...