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There is a certain amount of speculation rife, however, as to what will take John Harvard's place in the ravished and forlorn Delta. Harvard has no familiar animal, such as might readily be suggested at other places, to place upon a pedestal. And suitable statuary--or indeed any kind of statuary--is rare about the University. The Discobolus in front of the Hemenway gymposium and John Harvard comprise the whole outdoor contingent. There would undoubtedly be insuperable obstacles but some patriot might reasonably drag forth one of the excellent figures in the Germanic Museum--which seems never...
...Honduran Civil War (TIME, Feb. 11 et seq.) was reported to be getting worse, but no definite news was obtainable, except that at Tegucigalpa, the capital, disorders were rife and threats were made against foreigners and foreign property, even against the American Legation...
While America is rife with feeling pro and con as to Germany's actual financial condition and the support her population deserves there cannot be a person, however much he may dislike Germany, her ways, and her people, who does not hope that the peasants from this broken country will find in New York enough "generous Americans" to assure themselves that the Passion Play will not become a thing of the past...
Education, like almost every other kind of human endeavor in these times, is in a state of flux. Dissatisfaction, discussion, innovation are rife, and while many mistakes may be made, there is certain to be progress. In fact such progress is already in evidence in the extension of freedom of cuts at the University and at Princeton, a move toward the ideal of education by desire rather than by compulsion. But Columbia has taken the greatest stride of all in its plan, just announced, of abolishing mid-year and final examinations in certain trial courses and perhaps in the near...
...movement. Although the Rhineland may be fundamentally German, as Mr. Jentsch says, she has always been far from thoroughly Prussian. In fact until within little more than a half century all of the German states formed merely a loose confederacy of semi-feudal governments. Feuds and jealousies were rife between them and only a powerful and autocratic central government was able finally to bind them into a nation. Hence a separate state in the Rhineland or, in fact, anywhere in Germany would simply be a relapse into a former condition. Certainly the Rhineland does not find itself naked and alone...