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...have heard a good deal in the publishing business about the necessity of writing down to the public taste and I have never found that necessity to exist.'" Lord Asquith: " I wrote an article for a charity of Paisley, my constituency, in which I declared: ' Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life...
...part in the lives of a vast majority of students (which is true enough), nor is likely to become any more important in the future. It thinks a neglected chapel would be an ignominious tribute. If thinks a building which will be "a constant, active reminder of the ideal which it represents is the only memorial worth considering," and it speaks up for a memorial gymnasium...
Even the graybeards of "Life" cannot really believe us so young and ingenuous as not to see the abstract beauty of an abstract memorial chapel. But that has nothing to do with the case. The purpose of a War Memorial, as the CRIMSON understands it, is to commemorate an ideal for which certain noble sacrifices have been made. The ideal was not merely spiritual; it was the greater one of service to humanity. A new chapel at Harvard would hardly typify that service:--it is not physically needed, and at best it would serve only those whose religious wants were...
...reproductions of the human throat have been attempted, but some of the vowel sounds could not be made to sound truly. For a long time organ manufacturers have tried to fashion a genuine " vox humana," a mechanical singing voice. It is said that the new device will bring the ideal of speaking dolls...
McGraw is naïvely convinced that college training is ideal for the professional ball player. In fact, this idea is almost the central theme of his book. He dwells on it so fondly that the uninitiated might suspect the colleges existed solely for the purpose of producing intelligent ball players. Unconsciously Mr. McGraw has thus produced a piercing satire, far more brilliant than Mr. Edison's, against our reverent institutions of the so-called higher learning...