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...said John Davison Rockefeller, at the age of 60, when he was fingering the yellowed leaves of a precious document, his own Ledger A, which he had kept as a 16-year-old assistant bookkeeper in a Cleveland commission house. That all-inclusive creed, conceived in youth, ex- pressed at the philosopher's age, was the lone recorded feat of Mr. Rockefeller's imagination. Otherwise, he has exhibited no great creative imagination. But give even a street car conductor a mighty creed, give him an almost perfect mathematical determination to carry it out, and he will build tracks...
Certain newspapers, ever mindful of the glory of equality, have "viewed with alarm" the sums spent to obtain the precious audiences. Characteristically have they demanded what returns the Americans received beside the privilege of bowing in and backing out of the presence of Their Majesties a question that can only be answered by the debutante of a few years ago whom a beefeater found writing on the King's private notepaper at the King's private desk, letters which are now worth a small fortune...
Expenditure for this kind of knowledge is made in the precious coin of time. Few things in college are more difficult than the budgeting of knowledge and self appraisal. Two who have reached extreme conclusions about outside activity may sit nearby in classes, each a living reproach of the other, and each with an albatross about his own neck. What is amiable weakness in a Senior is a fault in them. They have dared to dogmatize, where to dogmatize is intellectually fatal...
...alone? Not so, said they; Lady Sophie, flying north over the Sudan, had also been forced to take an escort from the other side-a young lieutenant, snatched from the bride with whom he was honeymooning in African solitude. Very well, said Lady Mary, but time was never so precious; must she wait until the Lieutenant arrived with Lady Sophie? She must. The lieutenant came, the two ladies exchanged brief words of recognition, and back went the lieutenant over the Sudan, this time flying south with Lady Mary...
...known, a short time ago, that she wanted to sell it, people wondered why. What kind of wonderland is this, they said, in which a little girl so fails to keep the "simple and loving heart of her childhood," that she will part with something that other persons find precious when it should be ten times more precious to her than to any one else? But Alice Liddell, like all the other people in the world, lives in a wonderland where summer afternoons remain remembered only, and where there are not always boats and lawns and lovely stories. Alice Liddell...