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...than he of the "internal nature" which philosophy must recognize and study. The recommendation is significant of the demand which our serious youth are making to come closer to the fountain head of life. It reflects the conclusion of the younger generation, that physical science cannot be everything. --Boston Transcript, April...
Boston is a city in the northeastern part of the United States, the population of which is composed solely of those who live in the past and those who exist in the present. The one class reads the Transcript, goes to the Copley and thinks the "Mayflower" is still the ship of state. The other reads the tabloids, goes to the moving pictures and never thinks. So there is no particularly cogent reason why any real spirit of freedom, either of thought or action, should become an integral part of the Boston cosmos...
After being graduated from Harvard in 1891, Mr. O'Brien became personal secretary to President Grover Cleveland. He was later the Washington correspondent of the Boston Transcript, and then editor of the Transcript. In 1910 he shifted to the Herald and has since been editor-in-Chief of this paper...
...Transcript's editorial reprinted in the CRIMSON of a day or two age presented an interesting speculation regarding the use of humor and of humorous questions in debating. Competitive speaking between colleges happens at present to find itself in a state of metamorphosis of which some aspects are necessarily unlovely and extreme; and it can profit definitely by examining the frank criticism of those who sit in debating audiences or who serve as its official judges...
...school of debating wishes to do is not to place humor and logic across the stage from each other, as occurred Saturday night, but to combine the two. When this has been accomplished successfully, there will be no need for the special instructions to judges which the Transcript appears to consider necessary...