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Their life is not entirely spent "behind the beyond"; for they are usually in contact with little known, but interesting men and civilizations. They become, for a time, travellers in a foreign world. It may be that this is the survival of a world which flourished in the days before the earliest pharaoh was buried, or it may be that it is one from which the greater civilizations of the future will be evolved. But, at least, it is a world and a civilization different from that in which Americans and Western Europeans live...
...result will be one financial campaign and greater cooperation in every way between the two organizations. This new plan will not only give the secretary all the latitude he requires to carry on social service, hospital, and boys' club work, but will strengthen him in getting into more intimate contact with the students of the school...
...definite addition to family portraits of the Babbitt clan. He is a spectacle intolerable in his noisy stupidity. But he is pathetic in his back-slapping assumption of confidence. He has built for himself a legend of his own magnificence, only at times shattered by the cold contact of reality. Mrs. Pinney, too, is perfect in her way. She is the unmistakable, corpulent complement of all Pinneys. But the author has gone no further. The entire book is devoted to a repetitious chronicle of the unimportant doings of the Pinneys. It never rises much above the shrewd cataloguing...
...finds many attractions. First of all he deals with large affairs and with materials which will soon be tested in a concrete fashion by an authorized body in such a way as to show whether or not his work has been well done. Besides this, he comes into contact with men of great experience, and from his associations comes a gradual growth and development of personal experience which is in itself a great reward. A lawyer, moreover, is in a very independent position; his ability and energy are his capital and he is consequently not disturbed, as is a business...
...looking forward to a meteoric rice in his position or for a man who looks forward to making a million dollars," cautioned Mr. Bridgman. But the telephone company has many advantages which a small concern has not, for instance a larger chance to advance into varied fields, the contact with big men, and the develop- ment obtained as a result of such contacts...