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...shall invite the representatives of the nation to express their sentiments, and if they are pronounced against the Chief of State, that will end it. The inevitable rites shall be accomplished. But if, as I still hope, they reflect and refuse to comit a fault which also is an injustice, we shall be at their disposal to give all explanations. But what matters is that order and law shall remain intact...
Divorced. Lysiane Bernhardt Verneuil (granddaughter of the late Sarah Bernhardt) and Louis Verneuil, playwright; on grounds of "mutual fault," at Paris...
...most engaging, if also his most exasperating, characteristics. But it is not quite enough to score him off on that account as a "bonehead". It is partly at least the failure of a traditional form of education to impress him with its value. It seems almost a fault in the colleges that they are so organized as to impress upon the freshman that scholastic achievement doesn't get him anywhere, and it is almost a virtue in the freshman that he so successfully acts on that verdict...
...Gillette, being a first-rate business manager himself, proposes a remedy. The basic fault, he finds, with the present system is competition. It makes for endless duplication. The art of selling, including advertising, which occupies many people today is a clear waste which gets the consumer nothing. He calculates that in the U. S. there are 3,552,952 people who are paid, fed, clothed, solely for the purpose of persuading people that one product is bet ter than another. Let's abolish them, he says, or rather put them to producing something...
...Economics; I must have Marvell and Beddoes for my Divisionals." In my our case, I had had when I graduated twenty courses, of which twelve had been in English, and at least two in closely related fields-not the broadest of possible educations. That may have been my own fault; but, like the rest, I wanted my degree, and was taking no chances. The problem of the Bible reading which you mentioned is another good case in point. If, as you say, the examintaion this year necesaiated the taking of a Bible course, then the examination has defeated...