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...percentage of impurities in virtually all new mined coal going to market, charges the American, runs from 25 to 40%. The normal rate of impurities allowed by decent trade custom and considered unavoidable when coal is honestly prepared for market is from 2 to 4% in the large domestic sizes up to 10% in the steam sizes...
...angels in this new heaven. And it may be that the musicians of the cooperative enter- prise will practice cooperation by way of dividing among themselves donations from wealthy patrons, which is precisely what the musicians of other orchestras are doing in the process of getting a decent wage to live on. Humperdinck's fairy opera, Haensel and Gretel, was in many respects the feature of the past week at the Lexington Opera House. Probably more children have gained their first acquaintance with the operatic and theatrical stage through this than through any other piece. The audiences...
...will play the story for all it is worth from every angle. Editorially committed to the adulation of the common man (the "Mr. Dubb" of its cartoons), it commercializes the fact that the vice of riches lay at the bottom of the tragedy. It breaks through the tacit and decent understanding between " respectable" papers whereby Mr, Mitchell's family was shielded and exposes him with picture and headlines, thus: " Here is 'Marshall' unmasked. The respected John Kearsley Mitchell of Philadelphia, New York and Boston clubdom, a member by marriage of the famous Stotesbury family of high society...
...ideal situation would be that the entire youth of this country should have a year's service with the colors, with the idea of inspiring them to a decent citizenship. The factors of decent citizenship are a sound body and a sound mind; the appreciation of the dignity of labor and the happiness of industry; self-mastery, self-control; the appreciation of the benefits of our institutions and our obligations to them, and of the other man's point of view. Another essential factor is the spiritual, which is the function of the home and the family...
...this right-mindedness has been greatly increased in the last thirty-five years. Indeed, there is serious danger of discrimination against the athlete. The questions that we ask him would be insolently personal, if it were possible, as a schoolmaster once said, "to treat an athlete like an ordinary decent citizen." Nor is the athlete permitted, unchallenged, to receive such aid as a non-athletic youth, who may not have half his intelligence or strength of character, might go on receiving undisturbed for years. At Harvard the danger of proselyting in schools is now slight. The true danger is eagerness...