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They would not hesitate to destroy themselves, for they are ashamed and do not care to exist...
Without romanticism the Fourth Estate would never exist. For, though the secret should never, never be told. The Fourth Estate latters little upon news and much high noise. And Marie, in a queenly and Roumanian out of England by Germany way, Marie is noisy. Also she has a sense for just what is it to print. When a certain king of France saw his kingdom toppling, he called in the Third Estate. Marie never thought of toppling. She called in the Fourth Estate before there was a quaver. And the Fourth Estate has been true blue. Never once...
...trying to gain efficiency through directness of approach and through a reduction of friction. Taking duties certainly peculiarly fitted for those intimately connected with the work from those less well endowed cannot be considered as other than progressive. The tendency to allow a dubiously adequate system to exist usually betokens sluggishness or fear of novelty. That these who are at the center of Harvard athletic affairs are adjusting and making more effective their machinery is to be praised...
...must gain their open sesame to, or glimpse of the Universal by means of their own ability which may not be philosophical at all. Furthermore, a Vermont herdsman may have reached such a philosophy without ever hearing the best lectures of the most synthetic mind. College or university must exist for more than this. Mr. Aswell sees things too clearly. His college would be too efficient, too limited in perspective...
What renders humans susceptible to tuberculosis is not specifically known. The bacilli exist everywhere in the world. They gambol up human noses and down human throats. They nest in tonsils and proliferate in bronchioles. They take rides on the invisible droplets that each human exhales as he breathes. Whole colonies of them are ejected with sputum onto sidewalks, into street cars, in hotel lobbies. They are particularly thick in tenements, barracks, orphan asylums, workhouses, penitentiaries. But most people are able to resist them, to kill them as they grow...