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...group of connoisseurs. Roman gate ways, ancient mantelpieces, church sculpture from provincial towns have been avidly bought up by Americans, but will probably not be allowed to leave the country. Some French critics, however, say that France has only herself to blame for her low estimate of precious Corots, Daumiers, Cezannes, and for her poor care of her art treasures. In America, they admit, these objects are at least protected against vandalism in museums...
...ones. It is not the comparison of the sheep and the goats; of the good man whose works will follow him, and the bad man who will be weighed down by them. He is discriminating among different works all well intentioned; among those which he compares to gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay and stubble, although all done from moral motives; in other words between good works of high, of moderate or of trifling value, and he rates them according to their enduring quality when tried by fire. It is this that gives the serious aspect to his statement...
...Work! I thought I was just about to share in it, when the officers of the Widener Library gave me talismans more precious to me than those of the Arabian Nights, the key to the stacks, and the key to my study. Alas. May I say that never thoroughly discovered what the undisturbed peace of the scholar in his study meant, and that I was quite unable to explore completely the treasures fled in Widener? I was surrounded by so many friends--old ones, whom I was happy, to meet again, new ones, whom I was happy, to make...
...organizations calling for good sportsmanship, Siki be captured, chained and sent back to his native Senegal, where he can enjoy himself with the rest of the savages." Florence Reed: "At a committee hearing on a bill to legalize Sunday theatrical performances I pleaded: ' Give us this blessed, precious 24 hours of rest on Sundays. Please don't take it away from us!'" William A. Brady: "I told the committee: ' No matter what laws are passed by the Legislature the actors will not work on Sunday. The actors have the most powerful labor union (the Actors...
...lighting was by candles or lamps there may have been some necessity for bringing the students together at lectures during daylight. Now that modern systems, of lighting have come into use, however, such a necessity has been removed and there seems to be no reason for forfeiting the precious hours of the morning to lectures and classes. The student is required to spend his fresh, vigorous hours trudging on daily pilgrimages from shrine to shrine, bowing for fifty-three minute intervals before this diety or that and scribbling hieroglyphs which are to be deciphered and interpreted at some future date...