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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Great is the fall thereof." And to the music of tinkling glass, takes place the last act of the happiest tragedy ever told, the "Passing of John Barleycorn." The amendment by which prohibition shall be written into the Constitution, has been ratified at last by the necessary number of states. Well may the tragic minority echo the prophetic words attributed to Nat Goodwin when, blindfolded, he was given water to taste. "I don't know what it is but it will never be popular...
...student body but as objects of reform by the college authorities. He emphasizes in particular the need for studying these two subjects in their comparative aspects. In making this allusion, Dr. Butler has probably hit upon as grave an error in our system of pedagogy as can ever be made the subject of controversy by our educational reformers. It is that of allowing personal or national or even religious bias to enter into the teaching of the story of the past; it is compelling the student to view the events of history through the colored glass of the instructor...
...that Harvard stood for nothing but snobbishness, affectation, and intolerance for everything not moulded in our accustomed forms. If we believe this we should not be here now. If we were not firmly convinced that our ideals pointed to a healthy democracy, that our plan of life offered an ever-increasing opportunity to each individual for self-realization we could hardly have built up the faith that carries us onward. We are therefore thankful that we had the facilities to offer the Radio School and the Ensign School, that other men might come here and form a fairer estimate...
...content with this success. He proposed to study himself the problem of acoustics with such thoroughness as to make it a part of science. In the course of a few years he was able to do what no other man, so far as we know, had ever been able to do, that is, to foretell with confidence and accuracy from the mere plan and materials of a proposed auditorium what the acoustic qualities of the finished hall would...
Owing to the fact that the Class of 1919 has been considerably broken up for the last two years it is more than ever important that as many petitions be received as possible. In this way the class can greatly assist the Nominating Committee in making the proper choices for the various offices