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...ever recurring complaint that undergraduates are not given a chance to hear the foremost men in some of the departments of instruction in the University and thus are deprived of the great good obtainable from the inspiration of a recognized leader in his particular work has not arrived as yet, but we venture to say it is on the way and so will take time by the forelock and meet it before it comes and invert it. For those who annually sympathize with this complaint, attention is called to the lecture this afternoon by Professor James. The Department of Philosophy...
President Eliot has resigned after forty years of unselfish devotion to Harvard University. In that period of time, a University has come forth from within the cofines of the small New England College of the sixties, a University built on broad and noble lines with ever increasing influence in this and other lands. The growth of the institution which he has served has followed in the wake of the growth of its recognized leader. His ideas of government, his conception of educational processes, his inspirations, have made possible the development of Harvard College. And now, after having...
...ever made a deeper impression upon the educational system of a country than President Eliot has upon the educational system of America. His gilt for leadership, his discrimination in the choice of men, and his power to conceive and execute large plans have made him the most conspicuous and influential figure of the last forty years in American education. He has, moreover, shown a public spirit and a sense of duty in all matters confronting the life of the community in which he has lived and the life of the country at large which has made him the leading private...
Those of us, therefore, who have been trained in economics in Harvard--without ever suggesting that through ancestry and environment we may be thrifty souls--will feel that we do violence to our conscience if we comply with that condition and thus throw away two cents. On the other hand, if, true to our training, we omit the superfluous postage, we run the awful risk of the rejection of our application, and consequent inadequacy of excuse to the head of the house for not possessing the coveted quasi-bonds...
...Meyer first described the growth of the post office department from the time of Benjamin Franklin, when it contained 45 offices, to its present vast expense with 63,000 offices in ever part of the country. The expenses in 1907 were $178,000,000.00 and they are increasing each year. The rural postal system was first established in 1896 and has increased immensely in the last ten years. Due to this, the vast bulk of the people have become better informed on daily topics...