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...change in the voters themselves. And one of the most logical reasons for such an alteration is the fact that the voters have been informed, through the expose of the political scandals that all is not well with the ballot box, and that the Probabilities of corruption are manifold. There fore the desire to bring about a plausible amount of integrity in public office has drawn voters to the polls who have no interest other than to see capable and, as far as possible, honest men as their representatives. The result may be a repetition of former grafts...
...first lecture of the series which Gilbert Murray is delivering as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry has been given and, thus, there is officially attached to Harvard University with its manifold heritages of custom and convention--a new tradition. For no doubt can exist as to the future of this greatest gift of one who was an ever generous alumnus of Harvard College Year after year, men who have established a round claim to literary accomplishment of that kind most nearly approaching Longinus' definition of the sublime, will give of their personality their particular genius, to the often stressed...
...commenting upon the value of Social Service work, Professor James Ford '05, said yesterday. "The community's need of active social service on the part of college students is manifold. Juvenile delinquency may be materially reduced by means of students leadership in boys' clubs, in social centers, in settlement houses, through the Boy Scouts, and through social service in public probation departments. For boys, good or bad, are hero-worshippers and the college man comes to the, with a prestige and potential influence for the good which few, if any, others can parallel...
...Sidney S. Lenz, they say, who brought auction bridge to the Western world. Originally a box-manufacturer in Michigan, he had tried all indoor sports and wearied of them through sheer dexterity. He had bowled and become a champion. The ping and pong of pingpong, in all their manifold trajectories, were so simple to his touch that it became a bore for him to play with most people, unless he had a book to read at the same time. His bureau drawers were cluttered with medals for billiards, his shelves with cups for golf. He went off around the world...
Amid your manifold and widely interesting articles, can you not find space for something on popular astronomy?a subject of fascinating interest to multitudes who have never had even the chance to look through a telescope...