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...that followed have shown that the United States, with her resources in men and nature, has become a power unmatched in the world. Other nations are looking to it as they have hardly looked to another people before. It is no small thing to have power to influence the fate of all mankind upon the earth. With power comes opportunity and with opportunity responsibility. Our own right hand may yet teach us terrible things. Our power is likely to grow still greater in the world, and what do we want our nation to become? Shall we be satisfied with material...
...education were four years lost as far as experience in the campaign were concerned, and his training taught him nothing that helped to overcome the handicap. The ubiquitous, not-of-this-world, innocence of the college man plunging into business called forth the famous plea of Horace Greeley that fate should spare him from such "horned cattle" as the college graduate...
...current "thrillers" where the light comedy touch is not always unfelt beneath the clammy grip of Horror, and of which "the Green Goddess" is a shining example. It is thoroughly English in atmosphere-despite the fact that the collaborator, Mr. Presbury, is an American. Indeed, in view of the fate of sundry other foreign works at the hands of some of our theatrical countrymen, this is in itself no slight tribute. The play produces throughout a vivid impression of British life which thus relates it to the best of contemporary drama-and all this without sacrificing to any extent...
...gaping crowds of docile youth are compelled to stop in the highways and by-ways to listen whether they will or not. But the modern doctor who a message will be heard and sustained outside academic walls. He may, if he looks too far ahead, suffer the martyr's fate. But, if he chooses the wiser method of teaching those things the multitude can hear, he may sustain himself without resort to the tender mercies of trustees, presidents; and bursars. His earnings may, indeed, be sufficient to lift him above the feelings of indigence so destructive to free thinking...
...take up the story they have started a fence blaze around a precious paper held by a gentleman as perfectly eccentric as any we have met with in many moons. It is he, this "unspeakable gentleman", who for a day and a night fights the world, his son, Fate, and the reader, with the meagre assistance of rum, Madeirs, and a negro servant. Oh yes. There is also in the story a charming Mademoiselle de Bianzy, who adds a certain interest; but it seems almost as if the author had placed her in the center of the maelstrom rather...