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...already there are current among us movements hardly less ruinous, if they go unchecked, than those which on the continent have despoiled ancient universities of their most precious birth-right...
...about three and a half centuries print-makers had been producing popular-priced prints in unlimited editions. About the middle of the last century a new trend began to emerge, the tendency to make prints more precious and expensive. The artist printed fewer and fewer proofs, limiting the total to from 25 to 100 and then destroyed the plate. And he charged correspondingly more for each proof because they were so few. Furthermore about 65 years ago it became customary for the artist to sign each print in pencil, no doubt to show that he approved of its quality...
Differing only in duration, Washington's later life was a continuing retreat, according to a distinguished friend of the Founder, who said in a public eulogy: "He devoted the remainder of his precious life to a commendable self-review of it; a review for which every wise man, know ing his accountability to a Sovereign Judge, should allot time and make opportunity...
...years ago Promoter Clarke pledged his precious Pusco shares for a measly $2,000,000 loan from the old Dawes bank in Chicago. He never saw them again. In the process of liquidating the notorious $90,000,000 Dawes loan, they ended up in Jesse Jones...
...with a plant chaperone to make sure he does not stray out of bounds. Scrap paper and trial pages from the presses are impounded lest prices, layouts or even ideas fall into the wrong hands. Now that the forms are closed and the catalogs are on the presses this precious rubbish can be sold as waste paper. Because of all this mummery publicity men for the two houses have rough going. They must be extremely chary about the sort of figures they release, may be told to soft-pedal at anytime by their bosses...