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...remember the manner in which Mr. Gompers admonished college men-- and through them the more highly educated business and professional men of the country--to keep out of the labor question and allow the unions to settle their own difficulties. With the courts also pushed aside we apparently must sit back and give labor free rein to direct not only its own affairs but to continue to interfere with those of everyone else...
...give to the Freshman a perception of the fact that one can start with any subject and from it, in a perfectly logical manner, explore every field of knowledge, it would be accomplishing a great thing. All knowledge is related to all knowledge; it was Tennyson who wrote, in his "Flower in the crannied wall...
...Deacon Speaks" is so much the real Kipling that Kipling need not be ashamed to own it. The Dunsany piece, "Apotheosis and the Peer", strikes this particular admirer of Dunsany as one of the high points in the collection. "A Wessex Tale" is quite Handyesque in tone and manner, though a keener study of Hardy might reveal to the writer the secret of that sureness of touch that makes the consumate artist. Joseph Conrad in the bathtub is almost Conrad's self, and Edgar Masters' cutting edge is in at least one sample of "A Charles River Anthology". I think...
...copy. There are also excellent electrotype reproductions of German work in gold and copies of paintings by Van Eyck, Durer, and Holbein. The whole collection, containing as it does examples of German art from the first to the eighteenth centuries and arranged in a very effective, artistic manner, is one of the finest of its kind in this country...
...Bolshevism. Their opponents answer with a different suggestion. They assert that the whole affair will sour the Genoa Conference on the hands of Lloyd George, leaving him in disrepute, an opening the way for a triumphant Lenin and Wirth to come forward with counter demands quite in the manner of Stalky himself...