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...Whitney's plans, reproduced in the cuts on this page, carry out the ancient traditions of this fifteenth century institution as well as those of the purest Flemish Renaissance architecture. In addition Mr. Whitney has solved the practical problems involved in a library of such huge dimensions. The shelves will have a capacity of two million books, while the Reading Room has been designed to accommodate three hundred students at one time...
President Lowell gives as the main reason for this measure his opinion that no one can be thoroughly educated in English without a knowledge of these two fundamental sources of purest English. In selecting these two works as textbooks, the Harvard Faculty intends that they be studied for the value that is in the language which the writers used rather than for the purpose of teaching religious belief or pure mental enjoyment...
...sack, especially if she jumps in it her modesty may be dubious, but she is decent. But there can be no doubt of the immodesty of one who goes half naked. . . . If I understand your gliding scale of Modesty, the most petticoats dance in the shortest petticoats, and the purest of all in fig-leaves...
...Tokio governments, the recent strike of students in 14 provinces of China may not have proved a brilliant success. As evidence of the militant spirit of young China the walk-out of students is nevertheless tremendously significant. The Chinese students reached their decision to strike through motives of purest patriotism. They feared--whether rightly or not makes no difference that the Pekin Government was disposed to betray the national interests of China unless all its dealings with Japan were carried on in the full light of day. The protest was a genuine one. There was but one way at hand...
...declares to be impossible. Even the additional proposal for the spread of education increases the difficulties. It is Mr. Mott's firm conviction that the only way to avoid the rising dangers is to change the disposition of man's inner self, to present to the non-Christians the purest possible form of Christianity...