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persist in recognizing tlie principle of international agreement 

 as the one valid rule to be followed in selecting a code. To 

 these scientists it will never "go without saying," to use Dr. 

 Britton's words, that they make a compromise with their scien- 

 tific conscience, and abandon what they belive to be right ; and 

 they can see little difference between a code "forced down their 

 throats by a German majority" and one handled in the same 

 manner by an American minority. The crack of the whip will 

 doubtless continue to sound in the ears of those who lack the 

 courage to do their own thinking; but as long as there are men 

 broad enough to disregard all appeals made in a spirit of nar- 

 row Prussianism, just so long may we expect to be occasion- 

 ally interrupted by outbreaks of somewhat unscientific but 

 wholly righteous protest. In tahcniacula fita, Israel! 



NEW ENGLAND IN AUTUMN 



By Rev. Manley B. Townsend 



A N October ramble through the beauty and glory of autufn- 

 -^^^ nal New England is an experience filled with rarest de- 

 light. The whole landscape is a riot of wonderful color, green 

 and scarlet and crimson and gold. "Solomon in all his glory" 

 was never so brilliantly arrayed. New England is the land 

 of beauty. Mountain, forest, lake and stream, wild and rug- 

 ged, as well as our pleasant valleys, fertile meadows and open 

 fields combine to produce a landscape of rare lovliness and 

 unique charm. And New England is never more lovely than : 



"When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf 

 And suns grow meek and the meek suns grow brief 

 And the year smiles as it draws near its death." 

 One day in mid-October, as I sat at my desk looking 

 out over the housetops toward the distant woods, I felt the 



