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...That is a regrettable fact," agreed Mr. Coburn. "You ask me if Boston gets the best things of the stage? My answer is that Boston gets, and will get, exactly what it supports. If it will support opera, because it is the socially correct thing to go to it, Boston will get opera, but it will not get all the best things unless a true theatre-going habit is aroused and a real demand for them established...
...difficulty in breathing; and who is going to be ready to repeat the experience? A stranger, watching the hopeless overcrowding at the Union Tuesday evening would certainly ask. "Why don't they hold such meetings in a hall of adequate size?" And those familiar with Harvard would have to answer, "We have no hall of adequate size, or even any approaching adequate size; in fact, the Union is the best accommodation we have for this sort of thing...
...Gallagher thinks they have not. His figures show that the cost of the ham sandwich in Boston is six cents. Of course it must be remembered that the ham sandwich must bear its share of wages, rent, waste, and other overhead expenses. Yet it does not seem a satisfactory answer to his charges of profits as high as three and four hundred per cent, to say the cost of the sandwich has gone up two or three hundred per cent since 1914. The charge is made with full consideration of today's price level. The answer is beside the point...
...Hale was asked if the Farmer-Labor Party did not appeal to the same class of voters as the Socialist Party. The answer was an emphatic...
...between the Poles and the Russians, having quite as many ties with their western neighbors as with their eastern ones. They are a very ignorant people with almost no consciousness of nationality at all. When you ask one of them to what nation he belongs, he is likely to answer 'I am a Catholic' or 'I am an Orthodox.' Among such people religion is about the best criterion of natural affiliations...