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...George Bernard Shaw was one of the first men I met in London. I forget how I encountered him... He used to drop in and talk of his brilliant future and vow he would achieve it .... He had just written Cashel Byron's Profession, the only book of his I have ever read, and that because he gave it to me, though once later I heard him read Candida at H. W. Massingham's, and that was enough for me .... Soon The Star was started. Shaw was made Art Critic. I suppose it was writing on art that...
...then, go back to first principles. I believe that anyone who would forget the bitter political discussions and would devote an hour's honest thought to the subject would see that if America is to do anything to co-operate with other nations for world peace the least we can do is to join the Court. There is much more we can do, but we can scarcely do anything less and participate at all in the world-wide effort to prevent...
...Westminster Gazette: "This is a disgusting thing to be reminded of when we are endeavoring to forget the madness which the War engendered...
...whether Dartmouth's generosity could not be traced to the prosperous condition of the invaders as a result of successful wagers, the attendant replied. "No, they were just as generous Friday as they were Saturday. But the Harvard fellows treat the hotel more as their home, and consequently sometimes forget that we are personal servants. The Dartmouth fellows aren't in here often, and so don't get a chance to feel at home...
...cause. There is need for more dreaming in the American university. The progress of body, of mind is stressed too much,--the advance of fancy too little. When the wise men of his time asked Pythagoras his chief delights, he named children and stars. Most university dwellers forget the former while they hitch modernized wagons to the latter. They cannot trifle with dreams...