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...conference, Japanese and Chinese, Germans and Frenchmen, mingled fraternally in a common allegiance to a common ideal of international goodwill...
...overestimates the information of its readers. " This is the outstanding sin of highbrow journalism. . . "The ideal magazine article should be written as if the men and women who were to read it had just dropped from the planet Mars...
...American magazines are, each of them, too definitely either conservative or liberal or radical. This is " the sin of a fixed policy." " The ideal magazine should have no policy except a profound reverence for facts." The ideal editor will follow the facts wherever they lead, with the result that he is likely to be conservative in January, liberal in February, radical in March...
Conditions were ideal when the two shells lined up at the railroad bridge at 7.15 o'clock after being brought down stream lvy the launches. A slight following tide was behind the crews while the lack of wind obviated any trouble in this direction. Starting out on practically even terms the rival eights reached the mid-way mark with little to choose between them. At this point the Freshman and Combination crews took up the challenge and all four went on up the course together...
...this finite world, great men are merely concrete examples of the "ideal possibilities" of nature. But Mr. Santayana speaks of "other essences" always present "in the womb of the infinite", and so suggests the question of "who is there today that is really great?" In literature there are many prominent figures, among whom Kipling, with his genius for short stories and for verse and an occasional gift of true poetry, is the chief. In statesmanship--who is there? The cynic is apt to quote the great Disraeli, saying that "the world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into...