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Since Homer wrote of the heroic feats of unhappy Achilles and of the exploits of the ingenious Odysseus, history has drawn its heroes from the great. The mere nod of a mighty king was of more account to historians than all the people of his kingdom. The era of democracy in history has just begun, and evidently John Buchan is its prophet...
...average consumption per man, woman, and child per minute, day and year, will alone cause many gallons of ink to flow and many heads to nod in the wee small hours of the morning as this work goes breathlessly on. After these fundamentals have been touched on there will be endless startling revelations as to how many times those fifteen billion pieces of gum would encircle the globe if laid end to end, and how much the Salvation Army could get for the fifteen billion wrappers. Some especially gifted specialist will figure the horse power output of the jaws...
...standards of poster publicity during the War, refusing to display the Government's first crude and inartistic recruiting posters. The Company sent as a free gift to the boys in the trenches one Christmas, a series of posters of home life by great artists, including the Land of Nod by Charles Sims, R. A. The stations of the Underground display a guide to the current exhibits in the London Art galleries, changed monthly. The Underground considers its high artistic standard good business policy as well as public service. The subjects are always good advertising, but they must also qualify...
...farce-comedies. About the middle of the first act a suspicion of the outcome begins to dawn upon you, and you settle back in your seat and affably await the end of the third act and the inevitable. At the appearance of Jackson upon the scene, you unconsciously nod in greeting, and the pleasant thought comes to you, "What is comedy without its omniscient butler?" Knot after amusing knot is tied and untied--our hero, Carter, falls out of a passing love for Marcia and into love of a somewhat more enduring kind for Rosalie with the help and hindrance...
...half of my many kingdoms. This you could give--and yet still extra-curriculum is where the real lux and the real veritas linger. "Give me wherewith to stand and I will move the world." So we cry unto you; but as a University you will not hear--you nod wisely, and build your requirements for the average man who does not exist, and think not at all of creating that place on which the genius, which is each one of us who come to Yale,--may stand. --Maxwell Jo. Foster in the Yale Literary Magazine...