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...Sibley's object will not be to offer employment, but to discuss with those undergraduates who are interested, the details of journalism including the qualifications and the training best suited for newspaper work...
...ingredients of every sound human enterprise are the same: a healthy ideal or object; leadership; a competent staff; and money. All the great realities of life--such as the laws of health--are simple. That is not to say that they are easy to carry out. No great thing is easy of accomplishment. There is no such thing as something for nothing--in the long run. Those who are inspired to serve mankind must pay toll in duty and self-sacrifice. Their path is like the course of true love of which Shakespeare said...
...object for which all this hardship and disease is being undergone seems trivial in the extreme. It will make the race of men no happier to know that somewhere in the tangle of tollage that is the Darien peninsula there really is a band of fair haired, thin lipped natives. Science will be little the wiser, and the sum total of human knowledge will not be appreciably increased. The real explanation for this and for all such expeditions is only partly scientific curiosity; it is much more the insatiable longing of a certain type of intellect to penetrate farther into...
...Gooding long and short haul bill. The bill has to do with a phase of railroad rate-making usually referred to by the words "Charge whatever the traffic will bear." This does not necessarily mean, as it is sometimes interpreted, to raise rates as high as possible. The object of the Gooding bill is to prevent the railroads from lowering certain rates. The problem came up in 1887 and was referred to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The existence of the Panama Canal has put a new twist in it. The essence of the problem is that under certain conditions...
...certain feeling of discouragement in such circumstances is not unnatural; it is most embittering to have a benevolent idea fail, and fail solely because the object of one's benevolence is too unworthy to appreciate what is being done for him. But at the same time, life would be tiresome without its setbacks. Instead of submitting to the fell clutch of circumstance, Sir Henry should call up his fighting spirit and try again. Generalities cannot be drawn from single cases...