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...will do a textbook of the art and science of politics under democracy--that is, of practical politics, of the polities of job getting and boob bumbing? Surely there is a long felt want there." This is Mr. Mencken's latest dictum. Once again the modern Machiavell speaks the credo he has long assumed. Not a treatise which will lift the ethics of the profession of politics into the realm of the ideal, which will make of the gentlemen at Washington the "Guardians" of the state, but a textbook of bunkum and blither, a composite of the formulae...
...where it is found, is evidence either of laziness, or of ignorance of or incapacity for his high office. It is much easier to prepare a student for a definite examination than to stimulate his intellectual curiosity and arouse him from mental lethargy. The first is the miserable job of that parisite upon the University, the tutoring school. The second is the high duty of the college tutor. It ought to be a cardinal rule with tutors that the divisional examinations be kept always in a subordinate position in their discussions...
...said (TIME, Aug. 24, Page 5) in sketching the career of Mr. H. P. Davison, that he "was a young man who be gan earning his living at 16 as a school teacher. He never got a college education. He got a job as office boy in a small bank, etc." It seems to be clearly implied that his student days were over before or when...
Louis D'Arclay gave a spirited performance as Chico, the sewer rat who never let life get the better of him. When he prayed to "le bon Dieu" for his heart's desire, a job on "the hose", a wife with yellow hair, and a ride in a taxi-cab, and even payed good money to burn candles to his favorite saint, nothing happened; and so Chico forthwith became an atheist and went around proclaiming that God owed him fifteen francs. And it must have done some good for eventually God paid the debt. Tormented by a wicked, dope-ridden...
Even juvenile imaginations must strain if they are to exaggerate the prowess of Grange. Only 23, legend has already begun to barnacle his babyhood. Tales are told of how, 14, he won a job with an ice-company by swinging a 100-pound block of ice to his shoulders?of how, at 4, after seeing some track and field games at a county fair, he erected a pole and crossbar and taught himself to highjump. The first of these is given a good smell of truth by the much-touted fact that Grange keeps himself conditioned through the hot weather...