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...lecture this afternoon will deal with "John Winthrop and the Puritan Union." The lecture on October 19 will show the influence of Benjamin Franklin on the growth of nationality. On October 23, Professor Holcombe will speak on "John Dickenson and the Imperfect National Union", and on October 26, his culminating lecture will be "Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of Nationality...
Bibles. The ordinary Gutenberg Bible, of which 41 are known to be in existence, has 641 pages. (This was the first issue of the Bible printed with movable type, 1450, 1455.) Gabriel Wells, a Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, bookdealer, recently sold piecemeal an imperfect copy of 593 pages. Where whole books or chapters were intact, they were sold as units. The splitting up of the book makes it possible for many museums and libraries to have pages of this famous Bible, where it would be impossible to secure whole copies. Those which have benefited under this scheme are: Toledo Museum...
...From an imperfect deluge of twisted information that has been showered upon the world, a few facts stand out backed with some evidence of authenticity. One is that a Peking-Shanghai train was derailed near Tsinan, capital of Shantung province, and approximately 150 foreigners were captured by bandits. Another is that the Peking Government, while able to exert only a shadow of authority over the land, accepted the brigand's terms for the return of their captives. These terms include immunity from prosecution and incorporation in the Chinese National Army. Some of the victims are to be released...
...collection of the quantities of facts which are necessary for the business of scientific inquiry. Political scientists have the least excuse for weariness, since theirs is the science of life itself in its most highly developed form, that of the citizen. But unfortunately theirs is the most imperfect of all the sciences. To some that leads to impatience with politics, since it is so baffling and too often also so insincere. But to others the very difficulties of the subject form its greatest attraction
Present Tests Imperfect...