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These renewed exhibitions of good will toward other nations, coming in the same year with the Kellogg Peace Pact, lay foundations for the hope that the world, and the United States in particular, is recovering from the era of post-war materialism and is looking forward to a new ideal of international cooperation. A prime requisite of this is a comprehension of the other fellow's point of view. Such educational methods as exchange professorships and international fellowships are contributory factors whose value was recognized by Cecil Rhodes. The general success of his plan has given impetus to similar projects...
...miraculous Republican, survived the Democratic landslide in Boston last month. He received only 333 votes less than Nominee Smith in his district and won his seat for the eighth consecutive time-a Boston record. Widely read and traveled, wealthy, a bachelor, he is in many ways an "ideal" Congressman. His large staff of secretaries is continually occupied doing things for his constituents. His correspondence is vast, perhaps 50,000 letters per annum. He was in Speaker Longworth's class at Harvard. He still takes pride in having been "the first American to fire a shot against the Austrians after...
...intelligent questions that Charles Evans Hughes marked him, later appointed him his gubernatorial secretary and right hand man. A graduate of Harvard (1888), 18 years a newspaperman-reporter, editor, political pundit-he spent the last 20 years of his life in public service, representing Mr. Hughes's "ideal of the faithful, intelligent public servant, the sort that makes democracy worth while...
...praises the ancient kings. He moves along the path of humility and courtesy. He has heard of every subject. . . . His knowledge of things seems inexhaustible." He edited the ancient classics, compiled the precepts of propriety, attempted to uplift and order civilization. As magistrate, he justified Plato's ideal of government by philosophers - until political jealousy put him out of office. Bitterly disappointed, he died in sorrow, little guessing that it would be said of him: "Confucius is China." But such is Author Beck's opinion. Best known for her biographies (by "E. Barrington"), she has long been...
...Shih, whose contribution to the symposium, is among the very best of the sixteen contributions, disclaims the spirituality of the Orient, often sweepingly exhibited as an ideal of a more untrammeled civilization, and asks "What spirituality is there in a civilization that tolerates such a terrible form of human slavery as the ricksha Coolie...