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...first place, while the removal of the blockade will undoubtedly give relief to the Russian people, and temporarily help the cause of Lenine, this very relief will, in the long run, bring about that back-swing of the pendulum which came in the French revolution with the fall of the Jacobins, and which has come in all revolutions when the first period of disorder has calmed down. Furthermore, the main cause of Bolshevism is economic distress, and the lifting of the blockade will remove that cause. A people which does not lack the essentials of life tends toward conservation...
Recently the pendulum has been swinging the other way, for specialists tell us we should sleep as long as we can. Propagandists urge that the eight-hour law be applied to sleep as well as to labor, but still the answer to these rival claims remains unanswered...
...message contained in Mr. Lodge's "Modest Plea in Defense of the Humanities." While it is neither possible nor desirable to turn education back into the channels in which it flowed at the time of the Renaissance enthusiasm for the ancient world, it is undoubtedly true that the pendulum has swung too far towards the so-called "practical" subjects. Living implies more than efficiency and abundance of material goods; it includes the prime necessity of escaping boredom. Mr. Lodge's plea needs hearing at Harvard, where the number of men concentrating in the classics has ranged in recent years between...
...poor test of any team's ability because of the muddy condition of the ground, came the Brown game with its suprising result. Brown because of its victory over Pennsylvania had been greatly overestimated. Consequently when Sprackling was smothered and the Brown team over whelmed, 20 to 6, the pendulum swung too far the other way and Harvard was considerably overestimated Outsiders noticed only the wonderful all-round work of the ends, the stone-wall defence of the line, and the flash of offensive power which scored Harvard's first touchdown; they did not take into account the fact that...
...establishment of the Seismographic Station in the Department of Geology has been of scientific and practical import. At first much difficulty was experienced by the rusting of important wires, which support the pendulum, thus making the arrangements for measuring the exact time of the earthquakes unsatisfactory. After June 1, 1909, the records proved more satisfactory. The most important shock recorded was that at Acapulco, Mexico, on July...