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...text, however, shall be a sentence in the earlier address: "Give to History, give to Political Economy, that ample verge the times demand, but with no detriment to those liberal Arts which have formed open-minded men and good citizens in the past, nor have lost the skill to form them." From the point of view of our time this admonition of not quite half a century ago is somewhat startling. We need not nowadays concede to history or economics any place that they do not occupy; the need is rather of bringing home to future lawyers and captains...
David Goldstein, Secretary of the Catholic Truth Guild of Boston, took to task the whole birth control movement as being a detriment to personal morality, domestic felicity, and civil integrity in an address before the Liberal Club at its luncheon yesterday. He held that "birth prevention rather than birth control were a more fitting term by which to designate those artificial processes advocated by the proponents of this reprehensible doctrine." He termed as sophistical the arguments made by Mrs. Sanger before the Club two weeks ago in favor of neo-Malthusianism...
...creation of an erroneous conception of the true working of the judicial machinery. Frequently, there results the formulation of a public opinion upon a matter to be judged by the jury alone- And, of course, there is the catering to the public appetite for scandal, with the consequent detriment to the public welfare. It is believed that a coordinated effort on the part of the press and the bar will in time bring about the desired development in this important field of reporting, and that a uniform rule which will place all newspapers upon the same basis in this respect...
...noxious petition accused the University of truckling to business interests to the detriment of its educational standards. The stigma of this accusation lingers. It is either true or untrue. That the legislature has not thought fit to interfere neither proves nor disproves the charges. But Harvard men--both graduates and undergraduates--can not rest upon this noncommittal result. The interests of the University demand that the Alumni assume responsibility for a thorough investigation by the proper authorities to establish the facts...
...common knowledge among the student body that temptations which are a detriment to the health, character, and efficient pursuit of studies are almost everywhere present among the students living in the area...