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...place at the head of this country's economists largely through his brilliant and thorough investigations of tariff problems, and will now be enabled to use his knowledge in the most direct and practical manner. The value of his services cannot be easily appreciated by anyone who has not read one of his keen and impartial works dealing with the tariff...
...surprising degree of accuracy in past Catalogues has saved endless confusion wherever facts about Harvard men are dealt with. The painstaking work of Miss Mullen, who for fifteen years has read the proof of the catalogue, deserves highest commendation...
...Congress of Constructive Patriotism, which is to be held by the National Security League in Washington on January 25, 26 and 27. The subject of their addresses will be "America's Position as a World Power." A letter on "Constructive Patriotism," by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt '80 will be read. Elihu Root, LL.D., '07, will speak on "America's Present," and Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, and Frederick Winsor '93, headmaster of Middlesex School, will address the Congress on "Preparedness." The one hundred thousand members of the league will be represented and delegates appointed by 11 governors...
...undoubtedly some foreign influence, financial or otherwise, which has caused the removal of my book from circulation and the attempts of the Macmillan Company to buy up all copies already sold. The plea of 'important inaccuracies' can hardly tell the whole story, for not only was the manuscript read by the company's readers but in addition, after publication, by Professor C. A. Beard, of Columbia. The company states that I refused to accept the suggestions made by Dr. Beard, but except for a very few, which the vice-president of the company himself deemed immaterial, all the changes suggested...
Reports of a somewhat vague and inconclusive nature come from Harvard University to the effect that there is less smoking and pool-playing, and less purchasing of reading matter as well. The returns are from the Harvard Union, and they may simply be taken to indicate a decline in the patronage of that large and democratic social organization. But the Union is representative of the undergraduate microcosm. Life in the larger world is more serious than it was before August, 1914. "The cigarette," wrote George Frederick Watts, "is the handmaid of idleness," and the diminishing consumption of cigarettes may mean...