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...responsibility of education to scan the far horizon; it is the obligation of education, if need be, to undergo attack, to accept contempt, and to endure derision from contemporaries who are more interested in maintaining their own opinions than they are in knowing what is really so. It is the function of education, when error is found, to denounce it; it is the privilege of education, when truth is found, to proclaim...
Many of the men who make a living out of art have a great contempt for the wealthy. They cling to the generalization that a millionaire can be no better than a moping fool and a rich man's daughter must know less about painting than a dog-catcher's apprentice. Such artists were among those who competed for the commission of making stage sets for a drama called India, soon to be presented in Manhattan...
Blackmer's Bonds. For refusing to return to the U. S. from France to testify in the Fall-Sinclair trial, Harry M. Blackmer, one of the main Sinclair vice presidents, was pronounced in contempt of court by Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons, Mr. Sinclair's latest judge. Last fortnight a U. S. Marshall called at a Washington bank and attached for the U. S. $100,000 in Liberty Bonds deposited there in Mr. Blackmer's name. Mr. Blackmer's attorney promised to fight the U. S. for return of this price of silence by testing the constitutionality...
...mountebanks and spiritualists caused fear and contempt of hypnotism in the U. S. and brought about its practical divorce from medicine. Almost anyone can hypnotize another person, if the other is willing. Skilled and tactful hypnotists can put nine out of ten subjects into that deep pseudo-sleep. (Hypnosis is closely related to but not the same as sleep.) Automatic handwriting, mediumistic speech and the like phenomena of spiritualism can be rationally explained as exhibits of hypnotism. Stage magicians put their victims through all sorts of antics for the laughter and admiration of audiences.** Consequently U. S. people, even though...
...President J. Lewis Coath, melancholy-looking, thin-lipped, sat down on his dias, his subordinates at their desks facing him. In their impassiveness they resembled Indians at a pow-wow with white men. Superintendent Wm. McAndrew, on trial for insubordination (TIME, Sept. 12 et seq.), looked at them with contempt. Another of his many intermittent hearings was about to commence...