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...decided stress on commercialism, and that these universities do not contribute to the greatness of a civilization as much as colleges which dispense culture and the background of a liberal education. The further evils of stressing business in colleges lie in the premature choice of a career which a boy must make under such a regime and in the mistaken belief of the boy that the best things which college has to offer are the social and extra-curricular activities...
Undoubtedly we are vanquished, overcome by that glacier of tradition, which defies us. But the reviewer may triumph in the end by reproaching the Lampoon as if it were a small boy...
...entra dans I'Administration; in other words, he became a civil servant. In 1850, having married Marie Sophie Jacqueline Dupre, he was appointed by President Louis Napoleon Secretaire General de la Prefecture at Tarbes. Next year, to M. and Mme. Foch was born their third child, a boy whom they christened Ferdinand...
...Ever since my father took me as a small boy to visit Hampton ..." Those words, uttered last week, created for those who read them a curious picture. They saw a certain very rich man, old even then, with a sharp, meagre face and deliberate gait, dragging by the hand a small, disagreeable-looking boy in a homely tunic, who cast terrified glances behind him at faces that leered from entries and windows-agreeable faces enough, but black as tar, with large white teeth, white eyeballs, which that backward-staring boy found inconceivably horrible. John Davison Rockefeller and John Davison Rockefeller...
...stilted, fustian air that can only be characterized by the adjective "operatic." Such lines as "Naught my sweetheart from me shall sunder," "Thou'dst best beware," "I know not what I'm saying or what I'm doing" were hackneyed when Alfred Lord Tennyson was a litle boy in Lincolnshire and completely outmoded long before he was an old man in Aldworth. Such archaisms as "dight," "say him nay," "fain," such clicheés as "balmy breezes," "surly portals" are all shoddy stuff. They are no easier to sing than good English. Yet the fault was not Translator Meltzer...