Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Electives. Any petition to change a course so chosen must be in the hands of the Secretary on or before Tuesday, September 29, 1914. After that day no courses chosen on the first of May and beginning in the first half-year can be changed unless for some important reason, such as a change in the elective pamphlet...
What next? The leading article of the Harvard Musical Review tells us. "A Note on Stravinsky", by E. B. Hill '94, gives a brief outline of the works of the Russian who seems to be again pushing music beyond the limits of reason or rapture. Though as yet practically unknown in America, his works are receiving wide attention abroad. The "Sacre de Printemps," a futuristic ballet, was recently declared by the gifted Florent Schmitt to be one of an immortal trio--the two others being "Tristan" and "Pelleas...
...must regard the situation from a practical, matter-of-fact point of view, and must resist our desire to forsake routine for novelty. He concluded with saying, "Take no risk of distracting and distressing your fathers, mothers, and friends without sufficient reason. Remember that the risk you take is not only for yourself, but for those who are near you. Stick to your work here until your work becomes war, and then answer the call of your country and go and fight with everything that is within...
Norman Angell, in his address last night on "The Foundations of International Polity," emphasized the utter futility of warfare, and presented his case on actual social, political, and economic reasoning. He pointed out that there is an international effect of all wars; the reaction is always felt in financial and industrial circles all over the world, as illustrated by the example of how the Balkan Wars resulted in unemployment for 5000 men in an American city. He styled as fallacious and mediaeval the popular European excuse for armament; that in future "some new territory must be conquered for the expanding...
...Pending Legislation regarding Combinations and Corporations," Professor E. Dana Durand declared that with one exception, all the bills relative to the trust question now before Congress have a common weakness in their failure to distinguish between harmless and monopolistic combination. These bills would rule out the element of reason in the judicial interpretation of trust cases, thus making no discrimination between the petty and harmless restraint of trade allowable by late decisions of the Supreme Court, and the large and detrimental monopolies by the more powerful corporations. Such acts would do little toward bettering the situation. The prevention of mere...