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...interests of William Wrigley Jr., the stock market speculations of Arthur W. Cutten, the taxicab past of John D. Hertz (see BUSINESS) make them less available. No such considerations, however, would arise in connection with Thomas E. Wilson, packing house (Wilson & Co.) president, or Thomas E. Donnelley, "biggest" printer. Ideal from the standpoint of public spirit would be Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of Sears Roebuck, famed philanthropist (Chicago Industrial Museum, Jewish colonization in Russia, Negro schools and Negro Y. M. C. A.), mentioned as possible Hoover Secretary of Commerce...
...PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT, WHICH WAS ALWAYS MY OWN IDEAL AS IT WAS THAT OF MY UNFORGETTABLE FATHER, HAS BEEN SO ABUSED BY BLIND PARTY PASSIONS THAT IT PREVENTED EVERY USEFUL DEVELOPMENT IN THE STATE. THE PEOPLE HAVE LOST ALL FAITH IN THE INSTITUTION. IN THE PARLIAMENT EVEN THE COMMON DECENCIES OF SOCIAL INTERCOURSE BETWEEN PARTIES AND INDIVIDUALS HAVE BECOME IMPOSSIBLE...
...recently called the early history of Harvard "one of the brilliant pageants of American history," a pageant of which the "real theme is courage and devotion; courage under conditions which would seem to stifle all human effort save an avid grubbing for food and housing, devotion to the fine ideal of disciplining the human intellect and human will." One might add that the courage was largely Dunster's, and in devotion no one was his equal. Harvard College might even have followed its founder to an early death and oblivion, but for the lively faith, the serene courage...
...Scholars from friends and enemies for some time. It is inevitable that such criticism should arise. For an idealistic plan, such as Rhodes conceived, must appeal to the imagination of most people. But it will be difficult to find many who would agree on what the qualifications of the ideal Rhodes Scholar should be, and what the Rhodes Scholarships, should accomplish. Consequently, there is criticism...
...such stuff are the women made that fall under Guedalla's category of "real." Three more are, maliciously, "ideal"-the wives of Swinburne, de Goncourt, and Henry James (he, of course, runs away from his on the first day of the honeymoon). But the "real" outclass the "ideal" in artistic creation, and prove "the skittish muse of intimate biography," Clio's charming handmaiden...