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...backfield, the question that is being most widely discussed by football enthusiasts, will probably depend on the condition of Gehrke, Spalding and Cheek on Saturday more than on the judgement of the coaching staff. The Holy Cross-B. U. game last week showed that the Worcester eleven's greatest asset lies in its backfield. Many rough spots must be polished in the Crimson line if it is to withstand the plunging attack of Glennon, Healy, and Crowley, the flashing Purple backs
More recently Professor Whitehead has changed his opinion to a large extent and where he formerly agreed with Bernard Russell on most philosophical points, he has now many points of belief in common with Bergson who was the greatest modern Franch philosopher, and who was at the opposite extreme from Bernard Russell. Professor Whitehead no longer believes that mathematical logic will solve the major philosophical problems...
Mazzini, the greatest of Italian democrats, has given the world the best definition when he defined democracy as "The progress of all under the leadership of the wisest and the best"; and it is as true today as it was when he pronounced those immortal words and it is a safe rule by which to judge our own legislators in our National Congress. That body consists of 531 of the leaders of 48 states and 435 Congressional districts. They are the chosen men of the hundred and thirteen millions of our people. Their conscience is as good as that...
...greatest medical centre in the world" (to cost $20,000,000) is to be erected jointly in Manhattan by the Presbyterian Hospital and the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Plans for this project were announced last week by Dean Sage, President of the Presbyterian Hospital. The section to be occupied, by the Columbia College will cost $3,000,000, which has already been subscribed; the Presbyterian Hospital section will cost $7,000,000, $4,500,000 of which is still to be raised. The joint administrative board is headed by William Barclay Parsons and Dr. C. C. Burlingame. James...
Travelers from Italy report a moving instance of the limitations of the memory of musical mankind. Enrico Caruso died three years ago, leaving millions of dollars and admirers. He was, it may be affrmed with security, one of the greatest singers the world has ever known-and one of the most beloved. Yet his tomb, in Naples, most musical of cities, has been observed to be without a single flower-mute witness to the evanescence of man's favor...