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...that way" is the fact that tennis was a gambling game and was played extensively about the Mediterranean. (A direct offspring is still played in Cuba and Mexico as Jaialai). None of the modern equipment was necessary. The players knocked a ball with their hands over a mound of earth, or some such obstacle, and settled their debts on the spot. It is barely possible that desperate matches are played on the Jarvis courts for sodas at the corner drug store, but nothing so huge as the 15 sous game is ever heard of. These systematic days, if they have...
...street-corner statesman, who possibly ranks with the arm-chair philosopher as the supreme function-head of knowledge in all affairs of this earth, is raising his voice with increasing vociferousness to demand, "Why doesn't the Government take over the coal mines?" The fifth week of the coal strike has not pinched him personally, but it seems to him that the whole thing could be adjusted satisfactorily for everybody by having Uncle Sam just take hold and operate the mines. Thus easily dismissed, the coal strike shrinks away to a back place...
...government system that seems to be the last word in ineffectiveness, is that her people go about their business as usual, living out their lives as they have always done, managing their own affairs through family and village and guild, and continuing to multiply and replenish the earth. Many of her farmers are among the most skillful in the world. In large regions, land cultivated for thousands of years is still intensively productive. She has the most elaborate canal system in the world. She has probably made more progress in education in twenty years than has any other country...
...Parnassus on which men's colleges serenely squat, what of it? It can probably be said of them as, it was of Shelley that they have both feet and heads in the clouds; which is not exactly dignified. And it tempts one to invite them to come down to earth. We must not be construed, however, as implying disagreement with the ideas about censorship expressed. We think Clark University wrong in insisting on faculty supervision, and it is obvious that Williams has given undue publicity to the "Record's" fall. But the kept idealists of the "Nation...
...ship is to the sea--which covers 73 per cent of the earth's surface--what the steamboat is to canal and river, the truck and automobile to the highways. It is the means of transporting freight and passengers from place to place; and just as Americans own and operate the agencies of transportation on their interior waters, highways, and railroads, so should they own and operate enough ships to carry their commerce on the seas...