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...than thirty members. They had made no general appeal to the Society at large. It so happened that they stood for an admirable reform; but the Society has no assurance that they might not have been elected had they represented a less desirable policy. In other words, given the wide-spread and habitual apathy which characterizes the members of the Society, the power of the members to elect officers and thus determine directly the policy of the Society, tends to defeat government by public opinion, it does not tend to secure it. The mere fact that persons can carry...
...through laws, then, can we hope for relief. What is there for the individual to do toward bettering wide-spread corruption? How can he be furnished with the deliberation, intelligence and courage of good citizenship? Propositions are many and varied for the improvement of the conditions sur-sounding the poor. Tammany, in fact, has an elaborate system whereby its followers are supplied with food, fuel and work; but the funds used in this way consist o hush-money drawn from gambling dives and houses of ill-fame. This money should be stopped at its source and never be allowed...
...have followed with considerable interest the articles which the CRIMSON has been publishing on the subject of Physical Training. Doubtless such wide-spread recognition by college faculties of the necessity of physical training as these articles have disclosed is a surprise to most Harvard...
...author's reading to be given in Sander's Theatre Wednesday evening under the direction of the Cantabrigia Club will not only be an occasion of considerable interest on account of the wide-spread reputation of those who are to take part, but it is gotten up to provide funds for a decidely worthy object. Although at Radcliffe College, where many of the students are preparing to teach, there has always been a need for scholarships, the college has never yet been able to offer a single regular annual scholarship with a permanent endowment fund. Whatever aid of this kind...
...results of Professor Trowbridge's experiments with the electrical spark, which he has been able to produce with the aid of his powerful storage battery, have created a wide-spread interest in the world of science and he has received most flattering letters from many of the leading physicists of the country...