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...pipe-organs. There will be lectures on music, hundreds and hundreds of recitals and concerts, articles in newspapers and magazines, exhibits of musical books in libraries. If each and every citizen does not then realize that Music is a force to be reckoned with, it will not be the fault of the National Music Week Committee...
When asked if there was one fault common to most graduates in business, he replied emphatically "Yes, impatience. Being conscious of their head-start over the untrained men, they want to be put immediately in the particular branch which they like best, at a time when they are really only raw material. Also they are a little less willing to receive suggestions or advice from their superiors; but experience soon makes them adaptable...
...showed a distinctly evangelistic spirit. Just what use he can have for English pennies is not at once discernible--although, unlike cats, all pennies do not look alike in the dark. He may have thought them quarters, in which case his perception and not his business sense was at fault. At any rate, one is relieved to know that he was "not the plumber...
After an extremely weak first act (the fault of the play, not the players), "The Tailor Made Man" increases in interest, and by eleven o'clock the audience is quite willing to admit that Mr. Cohan has certainly earned his reputation as a producer and connoisseur of humorous drama...
...preceding, and whether that generation fell short in this respect of its senior. One thing is certain, at all events, and that is that the present crop of freshmen at Harvard and elsewhere are nothing much when it comes to talking and writing English. It is not entirely the fault of these unhappy youths that this should be the untoward fact, for there are many reasons for it. One is the acceptation in such matters of mediocre standards throughout the country as a whole, a state of affairs that makes itself evident quite as much in the school and colleges...