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...word painting can fit the candidate. We must incarnate the philosophy of Jefferson and the invincible courage of Jackson. The same issues exist today as when Tilden, Cleveland and Wilson were elected. The tariff then as now was building up a privileged class, With the exception that today schedules are made in secret and our policy has caused European Governments to raise high walls against American manufacturers. Corruption then as now had driven men from Republican Cabinets, only then despoilers were pikers who lined their pockets with thousands, while in our day the booty has gone into millions. Privilege then...
Tamburlaine the Great. As U. S. citizens sink their every prejudce in praising Lincoln, so Timur is always upon approving lips at Samarkand. The largest slab of jade known to exist is his tombstone (6 ft. x 17 in. x 14 in); and every child of Samarkand has stood in the great vaulted octagonal hall where the green jade tomb reposes, surrounded by six family tombs of white marble...
...college through it without serious harm to the curriculum, ideals, and standards and at the same time to satisfy and faster the development of the intermediate group referred to above the Junior College is both useful and necessary. The four year arts college and the Junior College can exist side by side each meeting the educational demands of contemporary American...
That the solution lies along the lines suggested by Dean Mendell is debatable. Any distinction based on curricular differences bids fair to promote specialization of the most doubtful value. The lead in educational theory today is rather one toward elimination of such artificial boundaries as those that exist between the several arts and sciences. The division of an English university into "pass' students and "honor" students must recommend itself as more likely to fit the situation. Such a distinction could well be established on a basis like that of the tutorial system as it is found at Harvard. More logical...
...Europeans in China, but it will be unable to prevent the transformation of anti foreign feeling into anti-foreign action which will sweep every Westerner from the country if any act of war like the proposed bombardment of Cantonese positions is committed. No justification for such an, act now exists nor is it likely to exist in the future if the American government and its representatives keep level-headed...