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...have become firmly convinced, not of the value of its social training, not of the spurious importance of costly buildings, but of the purely intellectual and educational opportunities it affords. If such men can live through the first two years of banal "prep"-school routine and generally low grade instruction without experiencing a revulsion of vicious disgust toward the university and the pretentiousness of its very name, they will be amazed to find themselves in a place where a genuine interest is taken in them and in their aims. And if they are lucky enough to come in contact before...
...night before a fire set for the avowed purpose of incinerating the fame of the great author. It was a simple creed he preached, this Harvard man. Live cleanly, avoid dirt, and the pathway to monetary, armorial, and spiritual success is a broad highway with a 20 percent grade. In those days there was no Comparative Literature...
Atlanta?Second grade public utility and industrial corporation bonds...
Boston?traction securities; second grade industrial and foreign bonds...
...which is not being payed to them anyway. The police force is still retained at full pay, but rumor has it that they may well be disbanded. There is not much left to steal. The crooks are gradually being driven from the city by starvation. Occasionally children in the grade schools faint from hunger...