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...what means can the people best be served? The real question at issue is: "Do we want to go about important changes slowly and carefully, looking toward the consequences; or do we want to rush hastily into any new legislation, in the hope that it may prove a panacea...
With the 1912 presidential campaign near at hand, the College, interest in politics has found expression in the organization of various political clubs which propose to support and expound the doctrines and political panacea of the several candidates and parties. They intend to bring leading men in the political struggle to Harvard to speak on the present issues. Their own members will be sent out to speak in public and to engage in the active work of the campaign. It is their purpose to arouse in the College a lively interest in the political history which is now being made...
...machinery designed to prevent open contests and free choice." Well and good. But what has this last to do with nominating speeches, or is any connection intended? Does "Graduate" wish to strike here his dominant note of reform, and in the seductive "nominating speeches" to offer Ninety-seven a panacea for all the ills besetting Class Day elections? If this has been his motive he has succeeded but poorly, and we fear he must have been a dull scholar in his undergraduate days, or else he neglected the good English courses shamefully. [See Rhetoric: "Clearness...
Economics is not and cannot be a panacea of social evils; something more is needed that recognizes other qualities in man besides his mere covetousness, and that will add to the question. Will it pay? the deeper question, Is it right? Economics is like a great mechanism, but it must get its motive power from the moral sentiment of the people. Science and sentiment join hands, - both are absolutely essential. Science without sentiment makes a man hard-hearted; sentiment without science makes a man soft-hearted. The influence of love must temper the reign...
...Syrup" is having an extensive sale at the New Haven institution. No news could be better than this, nor more fruitful in promises for the future of the Yale freshmen. It is pleasant also to note that it is entirely due to advertising in the college papers that this panacea has attained so wide a popularity at our sister college. The moral is obvious...