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...providing for transient, as well as regular members, the two most desired changes would be brought about--membership increased, and the price of board to regular members greatly reduced. In the first place, if the new scheme is adopted, the hall will accommodate those members of the University, who, for one reason or mother, miss a number of meals during the week. Men who breakfast at their dormitories, men in Boston departments of the University, club men whose tables are not open on Sunday, and many others, come under this head. From them have come the chief complaints against...
...should cease to look upon actors as a class who turn to the stage from a want of anything better. The American stage depends upon more than transient stars for its real value as an educational influence and a transmittendum to posterity. Should not Harvard with its recognized advantages do its part toward developing actors of recognized ability? We demand the highest qualifications for teachers and members of other professions. Is there any real reason why we should not demand an equally high standard for the men who divert us in our leisure hours, and, since demands alone are generally...
...through the principal Italian cities of the fifteenth century. Leaving Florence we enter Venice, the portal through which Greek literature passed from the East to the West, and crossing back to the mainland, we proceed to the stately city of Parma. To the humanists it was a place of transient rather than of permanent abode, yet its interest in the classics was exemplified in 1413 by the sensation created there over the alleged discovery of the bones of Livy. From here we turn southward to Mantua with its undying memories of Virgil, and thence to Ferrara, celebrated for the massive...
...distinction between what is transient and what is permanent in political history should always be kept in mind. There is a permanent element, which renders scientific study of the subject possible, and this is human nature, of the individual and of the masses...
...general tendency alleged by the previous speaker. The non-union man is the small minority in the unionized trades, and has been injured in times of strike only. This injury to the minority has been necessary for the welfare of the greater majority, but even such injury has been transient and intermittent. Trade unionism strives to secure for the working man his natural rights; to deny these by peaceable evolution--the method employed by unionism--would mean their attainment by violent revolution. The working man loves to be happy and a good citizen; trade unionism has made the mass...