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...Union League Club, founded in 1863 on the plank of "uncompromising and unconditional loyalty to the Nation," regardless of party?a club which has since grown into a great Republican stronghold, numbering among its presidents Joseph H. Choate, Hamilton Fish, Chauncey M. Depew, Elihu Root, Charles E. Hughes, Henry P. Davison, James R. Sheffield (now Ambassador to Mexico) ?a birthday celebration was held. It was in honor of the forth coming 80th anniversary of the birth of Elihu Root...
...conversation had already grown interminable, I insisted upon my opinion: 'I give you five minutes to think it over.' But at the end of five minutes Horthy's attitude remained the same...
...even at that time, President Roosevelt was compelled to make a distinction between "good trusts" and ''bad trusts," between the trusts which were the instruments of "malefactors of great wealth" and those which had grown great simply because they were captained by capable business men. The vital quality of big business is apparent from the fact that, since "dissolution." most of the "trusts" have prospered, indicating either that the old practices were unnecessary or that legal attack was ineffectual...
...That grown women, to all out ward appearances sane and conscious of their actions, have carried such a resolution is important as a sign of the times. Historians say it is only natural that an era of international skepticism should follow one when the universal brotherhood of man was so loudly proclaimed. Even so, liberal minded people cannot console themselves with the philosophy of Doctor Pangloss that everything must happen as it does and that all is for the best...
That methods of grading examinations should be as many and variable as the several departments is perhaps unavoidable, and be it said that most of these systems are just. Yet there is one which has grown of late into a scourge...