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...quality of mysticism, which Professor Lake so stresses, is reduced to a minimum, and religion becomes a cold academic fact. This spirit, condemn it or not, is born from the very nature of Harvard's critical unemotionalism, While it exists, no amateur, preacher and no narrowing dogma can chain the minds of Harvard undergraduates...
Ships and shoes and sealing-wax, cabbages and kings?it may not be long before all of these have each a chain of stores to vend them...
...reason for "chains"? Large-volume sales, therefore large-volume purchases, therefore low-priced purchases, therefore good profits; united management, therefore efficiency, therefore more profits; an advertisement for one of a chain is an advertisement for all, therefore cheap advertising, therefore still more profits; much profit, therefore prolificacy...
...chain that died?nine Winchester stores (sporting goods and hardware). The cause? Doctors disagree...
...dying away, Eliphalet Greer sat in his counting house. All the ships he could see from his window, spreading their intricate rigging against the New England sky, belonged to him. Eliphalet Greer was a lean and pious man; he had an ivory-headed stick and a great gold watch-chain; he wore a suit of black with lace at the wrist and collar; once a week he walked, Bible in hand, through the streets to church. In the graveyard above the town was a tombstone which he had erected to the memory of one Richard Parton, Esq., his FORMER ASSOCIATE...