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...Upon others there may easily be seen the stain of sour grapes. Others indicate a rather pathetic misunderstanding of the situation. It is to these last, some of whom may be among your readers, that I write. Of all the degrees given at Oglethorpe University, or by any other high-class college or university, the ones which require the hardest toil, the most strenuous application and the highest attainment, are the honorary degrees. . . . The conception underlying the conferring of honorary degrees is that the greatest university on earth is not Oxford nor Harvard nor Oglethorpe but the University of Life...
...business in a modest way, running a shell game. His organizing ability, nerve and personal charm soon made him boss of that lawless town. When the Sherman Silver Act was repealed and the bottom dropped out of the silver market, Soapy went back to Denver and started a high-class gambling house. He called it "an educational institution! The famous Keeley institute provides a cure for the drinking habit. At the Tivoli I have a cure for the gambling habit. The man who steps into my place is faced with the sign, 'Caveat Emptor' which hangs upon...
...waste of typewriter ink and time, but hope that my protest will be one of many. Few people enjoy and none needs the sight of photographed corpses. It is revolting, and cheap, and I would like to think that the person responsible for these two pictures among your high-class collection had been, or would be, called down. . . . BEATRICE U. FALAMON...
...Observed the sedate New York Times in 1923: "Miss Brice has had her nose condemned, and torn down and is about to erect a high-class modern structure on the site...
...many a high-class factory producing handmade shoes there are two kinds of workers: high bench and low bench. A shoemaker who has learned to work at a low bench will grumble if he has to use a high one, and vice versa. But their work is the same. It consists of sewing the soles of shoes to the upper leather while the shoes are inside out, then turning them right side out. In operation last week in a long neat shoe factory in Manhattan was a new process which gave high & low bench workers alike something entirely different...