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...pressure of circumstance and of immediate problems may prevent his ever attaining to an understanding of the essentials of which everyday politics are the outward expression. If he has studied political ideas at college, although their abstract perfection may be lost in actual life, yet he has the critical background necessary for effective action. Even if college men do not go into politics their training in political theory will make them intelligent citizens capable of exerting a healthy influence. If politics are ever to be constructed on any more solid foundation than that of opportunism dictated by mass emotions...
...pitfalls of a conceited brahminism, it has always selected and passed on to its readers the best of Boston's achievement, and has succeeded at the same time in representing all sections of the country and the most diverse aspects of its life and civilization. Despite its conservative background, it was consistently and admirably liberal in all fields, from the time of the abolitionists to the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti...
...each committee to penetrate below this reserve and stimulate an interest and a desire to meet the foreign students half way. Harvard is unusually lucky in being a center where students gather from all parts of the world and the House plan provides a splendid background for an exchange of ideas and of friendship. The Phillips Brooks House committee. If well chosen, should make pleasant contact possible...
...greatest production of the master showman, Florenz Ziegfield, "Show Boat," which moved in at the Shubert Theatre last night, certainly did not disappoint the hopes of the most expectant. There is humor, there is a well-defined plot, there is love, hate, and pathos, all woven into one harmonious background of Jerome Kern's Music...
Under the present Pews the Sun has been managed carefully. Lack of publicity more than anything else has kept it to the background in the industry's news. When new fields have been opened, Sun has gone quietly about acquiring leases. Its holdings in Venezuela come to hundreds of thousands of acres. In the East Texas field it owns about 7% of the total acreage. Eight tank steamers and seven motorships transport its oil from Texas to Marcus Hook, about 17 mi. southwest of Philadelphia. There Sun owns 525 acres upon which stands a large refinery...