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...reading appealed in perplexity to its instructor to give some introduction of the strange authors and to explain away some of the difficulties of unlearned dialects. He responded by holding classes regularly during the Reading Period, and was met by the fullest attendance of the year. From bewilderment at dull dialects and a background not understood, his section passed to enjoyment of almost living poetry. For his sacrifice of time which he might have spent at his own tastes, for his generosity in responding to their appeal, and for his kind regard of their welfare, the members of his class...
Back in the dull, depressed days of 1921 President Warren Gamaliel Harding appointed a committee to look into the matter of unemployment, to make a report upon this then burning question. When last week the Unemployment Committee announced its findings, neither President Harding nor unemployment remained a U. S. problem. It was primarily a Hoover Committee that made the report (President Hoover was Committee Chairman while Secretary of Commerce) and prosperity, not unemployment, was the burden of its story. Called upon to view with alarm, the Committee concluded by pointing with pride...
...much emphasis is ordinarily laid upon intercollegiate athletics as a means of bringing colleges together, that one is tempted to overlook the quieter, more informal opportunities for contact. Newspaper headlines and brass bands blind the eye and dull the ear to all but the most spectacular events. And there is certainly nothing spectacular about a meeting of thirteen deans unless it be good material for the nightmare of a dropped Freshman...
...Company, which in the past twenty-five or forty years has grown from a little store in the lower end of Manhattan Island to an international merchandising organization, with its headquarters occupying almost a complete block in Herald Square. Its personnel ranges from seven or eight thousand in the dull season to fourteen thousand at the time of the heaviest Christmas business, and its total annual sales run almost to the hundred million mark...
...dull red coat of preservative paint is the usual lot of structural steel, a dull red which is promptly censored by an overcoating of black. But from now on, the structural steel for all skyscrapers whose frames are by the Hay Foundry & Iron Works of New York will shine yellow in the glare of the sun. The first of them will be the Louis Adler Building, now arising on Seventh Avenue at 37th St., Manhattan...