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...ander Hamilton, William Cullen Bryant, John Bigelow, Carl Schurz, E. L. Godkin-great men who had made the Post a landmark of journalism. But these men had passed and the Post was no longer their Post. It was a paper run by a group of wealthy men for the pur pose of satisfying their view of what a newspaper should be-an educated man's paper, liberal, refined, in good taste. Mr. Curtis changed the Post into what he thought a paper should be-a paper for news, a go-getter for circulation, the kind of intellectual pabulum that...
Concerning prohibition: " I think the decision of the United States Supreme Court was a good one. . . . When we go to Europe we obey the laws of whatever country we are in, and when their boats come here we can expect them to obey pur laws...
...American preacher remarked that "it would have been impossible to fight through the Civil War without the imprecatory Psalms." Now a large section of the church wishes to abolish such Psalms from their weekly worship. What Galileo said of the world might also be said of religion: "E pur si muove-it does move...
...regard to the question of the nature of the atmosphere of the sun. The experiment was performed by Professor Trowbridge and consisted in a careful study of the effect of powerful discharges of electricity on the spectra of various gases. Although great care was taken in drying and pur fying these gases, it was found that hydrogen, nitrogen and rarefied air gave substantially the same spectrum under the same conditions and as a result of the powerful electrical discharges the aqueous vapor was released from the walls of the spectrum tubes. From this investigation it was concluded that oxygen does...
...been at any time during the last few years. Heretofore scarcely a football season has passed without some disagreeable controversy. The climax came this year. If we may trust our past experience, then, the action which we took in withdrawing cannot be so bad in its consequences as pur continuation in the league another year would almost necessarily have been. If worst comes to worst under the present circumstances, our condition will still remain better than before our withdrawal. It is foolish to harbor the fear that we may not have antagonists in the future, even if we remain outside...