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...horrified to recognize the Queen's voice. Embarrassed attempts to excuse himself were unavailing. "If you need to get to Belgrade, I'll take you," said Her Majesty, insisted upon knowing his address, delivered him at the door. A few days later at a public function the general encountered King Alexander. "I hear you have a new chauffeur," said His Majesty with a twinkle...
Since we have admitted that education does perform a definite function in leading civilization toward a certain fleeing but over-visible horizon, and since a true educational system is a true relationship between teacher and student, it is quite apparent that the college has just as much right to pick its students as to choose its teachers. If Plato had not believed this, we might never have hoard of Aristotle...
...function of this court . . . to consider the propriety or justness of the tax, to seek the motive or to criticize the public policy which prompted it. ... The power of taxation is fundamental. . . . The restriction that it shall not be exercised [unequally] does not compel the adoption of an iron rule of equal taxation nor prevent variety or differences in taxation. . . The fact that a statute discriminates in favor of a certain class does not make it arbitrary if the discrimination is founded upon a reasonable distinction. . . . The statute treats upon a similar basis all owners of chain stores. ... This...
...meet and to mingle with men is at least as important as any other single benefit to be derived from a college education, it seems postulated that the institution should make more than casual provision for the development of that ability. Exposure to social experience is as much the function of the college as exposure to the natural, the biological, and the metaphysical sciences...
...every 100,000 inhabitants. I have given these statistics, not to be discouraging, but to indicate the fact that, like all Government activities, the work of the Foreign Service must be viewed by the persons entering upon it not simply as a personal career, but also as a representative function in which he must take the share of many of his countrymen in representing to other nations the ideals and interests...