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...sense that they were good men and will be hard to replace, but it was good in a way because all the men came from well-organized and (mostly) Dixieland bands--which meant so far, Jack hadn't been able to develop any distinctive style...
...invention in order to be of use to the public must be developed, perfected, and put on the market at a reasonable price. But no sound firm is going to spend money on research and perfection of, say, a new drug, unless it has the protection of a patent on that new drug. Quite possibly a competitor might place on the market a product of inferior quality which would undersell the reputable drug and cause great loss to the company marketing it. And if, because the patent on an invention is "dedicated to the public" no reputable firm dares...
...rejects the notion that for the accomplishment of these aims one curriculum is as good as another so long as it is well taught. To become acquainted with the common tradition of human experience, the student must be required to expose himself to the broad areas of knowledge. To develop independent intellectual tools, he must be encouraged to pursue thoroughly some limited field of learning. In other words, there is a definite content to liberal education; and the present failure of Harvard College is that it supplies the specialized part of this content to the neglect of the general part...
Life is no picnic in any military school, but General Beaver's school is particularly two-fisted. At each new boy, General Beaver thunders: "You must study . . . you must behave . . . and you must develop." Card-playing, gambling and cigarets are strictly forbidden (although boys over 16 may smoke pipes in their rooms). Cadets may go gallivanting in Gainesville (movies and soda fountains) only on Saturday nights. For violations they get demerits, and for each demerit they must walk post for an hour, with a rifle and full equipment, in the "bull ring." For smoking, a cadet gets...
When a distinctly nationalistic school began to develop in Spin, the stimulus came at first from outside. In their search for folk-songs and new and exotic types of musical material the musicians of the late nineteenth century, especially the colorists of Russia and France, exploited the brilliant melodies and rhythms of Spanish popular song. The number of French and Russian compositions at the end of the last century with titles like Spanish Caprice, Spanish Symphony, Espana, and Iberia demonstrates how potent an influence the Spanish idiom had become...