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...peace times, the huge expanse, with its innumerable villages and comparatively few large towns, remained an unsolved mystery to most of the few people who troubled to visit it. And when the war out most of the communications, and only the picturesque accounts of the war reporters were forth-coming, the generally lurid impression was not modified. One was taught in school that Russia was composed of a very large number of peasants who slept on the stove and consumed a uniquely potent stimulant called vodka, guaranteed to baffle the coldest weather and the Czar, a glorious individual, at whose...
...individuals who invest. The mere fact that Bishop Lawrence is confident that this attempt to increase the potential service of Harvard to the country is worth while will be enough for many; while the more conservative, who will demand facts and details, will find plenty of both forth-coming. In this latter exigency, Dean Donham will unquestionably prove of the utmost value. Realizing more fully than anyone else, perhaps, what the possibilities of an independent; fully-equipped Business School are, Dean Donham will combine with his talent for executive work the most intimate knowledge of the uses to which...
...four of the best years of his life to the process of analysing his own personality and directing it into such channels as will develop his peculiar talents and capabilities to the utmost. But this is not the whole story: If it were, each one of as would go forth to an enlightened hermitage. All this attention to self is subordinate to a more fundamental urge the desire to express that self in relation to others; to prove to the world that we in seeking known! edge rather than more immediate and spectacular benefits, have chosen the better path...
...impossible for anyone to tell what principles actuate either party. This might seem merely a further sign of the disappearance of party boundaries were it not that President Coolidge has set forth definite issues in taxation and the bonus. The trouble is that beyond a few stout supporters, the President is surrounded by a flabby party. At present the Democrats are fairly leaderless. Their strongest champion and the only one to set up a platform a very wide straddle of reduction in taxes and a soldier's bonus has been badly smirched in the oil battle; Senator Underwood has never...
...legal adviser of Platon's church, and has advocated secession from Moscow. Bishop Manning is sympathetic. It is believed that if the Russian church is left to itself, it will wither and die. But if it has Episcopalian support it will flourish, like the green bay, and bring forth fruits of goodness and true Americanism...