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...loss or disablement or the extinction of business opportunities for other people, that is not a sufficient reason for denouncing such combinations or denying their right to be. But then, again, this is not the whole of the case. That great aggregations of capital have in them elements of peril there can be no doubt. As President Hadley has said. "The true medical treatment in the body politic as in the human body, is the physiological one to create a public spirit and a public sentiment which shall be adequate to deal with the new conditions...
...fifth lecture given by M. de Regnier, Saturday afternoon, was on "A New School of Poetry, the Decadents and the Symbolists." Poetry in France had been in great peril from the ever rising wave of naturalism and realism, to which all the poets were making concessions. But when the needed reaction came, poetry was thrust aside, and the poets, accepting their solitude, broke apart into groups. This was the situation in 1880 and it was a serious one as it tended to the establishment of a perilous byzantinism. The young poets of 1885 had a peculiar and a strange language...
...South Americans to cede their territory to European powers, as our government proposes, or deny it, as some United States Senators demand; if we keep other powers off what shall be our own relation to South America; is there a danger of complications there possibly more real than the peril of European entanglements; is there a danger that "sovereignty" may lead to protectorates, and those to annexations, until our republic becomes unmanageable? These are some of the questions which suddenly confront us. Can there be anything more creditable to Harvard men than to think and speak on these matters without...
...speaker for Yale was H. Bingham, Jr. He emphasized the advantages making the president eligable for a second term. With the prospect of re-election the President would be likely to perform his duties more conscientiously than if he was to serve but one term. In a time of peril it might be absolutely necessary for the safety of the country to re-elect a man who already understands the condition of the country and the duties of the President's office. He closed with a summary of the arguments against the proposed ineligibility amendment...
...said that the scheme of life which Christ brought to the world was a system of prayer. Prayer is instinctive in man in times of peril and emergency. At such times it is universal; as natural to the poor heathen as to the Christian. It is the unrestrained outpouring of the soul towards the Father of all. The highest civilization which the world knows is one which depends on prayer and which builds edifices for purposes of prayer. In such a civilization there is the most prayer, for the men of genius, unsatisfied by communion with human beings, reach...