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...which had commented despairingly: "In the face of the country's unanimous expectation that it would receive a Government which it had indicated unquestionably was its choice, it is answered again with a Government by the Bratiano family. May God protect Rumania from . . . this [the King's] deed...
...smashed a jeweler's plate glass window with a heavy hammer. Instantly a crowd of hundreds assembled, with a great uproar of shouting, thinking it was the deed of an anarchist. I ran away, to avoid violence. But the jeweler, a fleet-footed young man, ran after me and overtook me. I assumed that he meant to arrest me. But instead, he pressed into my hand a list of his other shops, saying, 'Go and do the same to all of them! It will be a splendid free advertisement...
...Encyclopaedia Britannica, presumably by some member of the course. Such an act will, I am sure, be promptly and vigorously condemned by every one of the other 35 members of Psychology 9, and even, I hope, by the who who did it, when he reflects that his deed wronged his fellow students who had the same right to the use of this article that he had, and wronged the Library by permanently destroying the value of an expensive reference work. Copies of odd volumes, still less of stray pages, of the Britannica are not to be procured from the publishers...
...desire for glory as a motivating force, but it does insist that glory be the consequence of a brave advance. Where thought of honor played no part in the inspiration to action, honor, especially of the tawdry vaudeville variety, is out of place following the consummation of the deed. All glory adulation and honor to the pioneers, but when humanity makes step onward and upward without ringing bells whose clamor grows harsh, and firing too loud cannon, that will be news...
...often that a good deed is remembered two hundred years afterward. Those men who have formed a society of bibliophiles under the name of the John Barnard Associates have done an excellent and very fitting thing; for it was the Reverend Mr. Barnard, who, in the middle of the last century, replaced the old library which had been lost by fire with a new one of his own. The colleges in those days was not the prosperous organization it is now, and such a gift meant as much then as would the gift of a new library today, should Widener...