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...outstanding feature of the high surtax is their marked tendency to become unproductive. The high rates are defeating their purpose. Statistics of income for the years 1916-1920 prove this in the clearest fashion. There has been a remarkable decline in the larger taxable incomes, while taxable incomes generally have been increasing. The following statistics show this for taxable incomes in excess of $300,000 a year: Number of Returns Year All classes Incomes over...
...carry further their consideration of the subject, to study Dante's life and times, to get the substance of his best works, and to do reading as much as possible in the original language, Professor Grandgent concluded, "From such study, derive the conception of a supreme artist, endowed with clearest vision, vivld appreciation of beauty wherever found, love of symmetry; a scholar of orderly mind and insatiable thirst for knowledge; a man of exceptional intensity of feeling; above all, a mighty champion and prophet of justice...
...Pygmalion", the shrewd intellect of Shaw is at its clearest and wittiest. He divides the actual from the supposed or imagined with a two-edged sword. He creates true characters, pleasantly individualized. As in all his best plays, so in "Pygmalion" the dramatic technique is perfect. No machinery creaks, no awkward comings in or goings out mar the uproarious comedy of the five acts. One is haunted by the feeling that taken seriously, Mr. Shaw may turn out to be a serious man, and his plays truer than people think. Alfred Dolittle, as an impersonation of "undeserving poverty", which...
...thing; we are acquainted with several middling-to-elderly ladies to whom it is the breath of life--at intervals. But personally we distrust poetry with an avowed message. Experience has taught us that all too often it forgets to be poetry at all, while the deepest, truest, clearest message comes from the poetry which pretends to be nothing more. So, if someone gives you the book, you will read it through, sigh. "Thank God for Robert Browning", and make a place on the bottom shelf or your bookcase, reflecting that here are those "songs of modern speech" which Andrew...
...family President Harding has vindicated the assertion of the great advantage offered by a college education. The fact that eighty percent of the Cabinet are graduates of some institution for higher education, while less than one percent of our entire population are holders of college degrees, demonstrates that the clearest judgment selects men so trained as most capable of competent representation...