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...destroy patriotism and reverence for our heroes is bad, to blast the happy counterfeits that throng the precious memory of childhood is still worse, but to remove the stock and stay of the Latin Quarter is unutterable. Art galleries, painters, dowager dilettantes, lily fingered aesthetes, all down in one cataclysmic head. It must...
...healthy moral children to the voters and officials of America-most of our native criminal class are products of city slums. If these children were watched and nurtured a criminal type of child would not develop. . . . We must see that their roots have proper soil to put their precious tendrils into. City children must not be denied grass and flowers, fields and streams-all the imaginative surroundings that are a part of nature. . . . Ten years will see the start of this new generation. We can move swiftly after that. Why, today we think little of spending $700,000,000 annually...
...with an aesthetic appreciation for beautiful forms, but also it should have a limitless value to those who are interested in history and the progress of the human race. Rather than being written in the pages of lengthy volumes, a tale of history is here told in finely worked precious metal and gems explaining more tersely and no less clearly how the people in the dawn of civilization speculated on the phenomena of nature. One does not need to be a Keats before a Grecian Urn to learn from these foster-children "of silence and slow time" the lessons which...
...unemployment situation, less drastic in fiscal than in calendar 1930. However, the Secretary declared: "The monthly reports on the volume of employment and on wholesale prices have been greatly expanded and improved. . . . The actual speed of publication has been greatly increased." A Davis truism: "Children are the most precious assets of the Nation." He has five children, all of their names beginning like his with J-James, Jane, Jean, Joan, Jewel...
...being supported by the roof! Or to see buttresses, instead of holding up a wall, actually being held up by steel! All this in the university whose motto is Lux et Veritas. There is not one suggestion of Veritas in the Sterling Library; and for that matter there is precious little...