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...Perry himself aptly termed it, it is a "getting at the individual boy." It has been said of the human being, as has been said of a whole people, that when he ceases to possess "individuality," his progress ends. Mass education makes it all the more possible for this precious quality to be lost. Mr. Harkness's gift to Exeter, on the other hand, has put emphasis on treating the students as distinct individuals, or to quote the principal of the Horace Mann School, "as a good physician would treat their physical growth and welfare...
Coal-black golddiggers have sweated $5,200,000,000 worth of the precious metal out of South Africa's Rand goldfields-which stupendous total is nearly half the world's supply of monetary gold...
...proposed nothing more than to follow the line of re-examining German capacity-to-pay, the line already taken by Mr. Hoover and M. Laval. When Orator MacDonald turned to gold, harping on Philip Snowden's old project for a world monetary conference to "wisely redistribute" the precious metal, M. P.s noticed again that in fiscal matters the Prime Minister is a romantic. Realistically the U. S. and France oppose all schemes for "distributing" their gold except the mechanism of international exchange, which Ramsay MacDonald disparaged thus...
...Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad was not present, it being an old Hyderabad tradition that "the Sovereign is too precious to his people ever to leave India." Actually the stingy Nizam, said to possess a miser's horde of $500,000,000 in gold apart from other wealth totaling $2,000,000,000, is not exactly his people's joy, much less that of his ministers. One of these harassed statesmen, when asked, "Why do you always arrive at the Palace in a Ford?" replied, "I am afraid that His Exalted Highness might consider my Rolls Royce a present...
First, there is the survival of the pioneer spirit, which favors bluff and hearty comment and finds a well-considered choosing of words too precious for its taste. Then there in this much-deplored age of sensation, which gives to the gentler diction of Charles Lamb's day something of the flatness of circus lemonade. There are also the over-fecund keys of typewriter and linotype, where flying fingers run riot in a manner unknown to the plodding scribe and compositor of an earlier day. Finally, there are the advertisers, who distill the strongest potations from Mr. Roget's Thesaurus...