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...purpose of the book is merely to disseminate political information and not to propose panaceas for present-day political evils. . . . All I have tried to do is to tell a plain reporter's story of the political game as I have seen it at close range and in many different parts of the country...
Those who have sat under him in the lecture room, or have ever heard him speak, know, however, that such universality does not imply, with him, abstraction or scholarly aloofness. One of his chief charms is his ability to turn the ancients to present-day use, to make a Carlyle as much of a reality as a Coolidge--an ability that is far from failing him in his most recently published collection of essays and addresses. That this collection includes papers on such men as Dana (he of the "Two Years", fame), John Burroughs, James Russell Lowell, Emerson...
Whether the data on Vitamin X can be applied to other animals, including humans, has not yet been determined. But it can be said, at least, that much of our present-day knowledge of human nutrition and physiology was first learned through experiments on rats...
...kegs of beer in the college yard. The memory of these things may long be cherished, but they are really only part of the scenery; their modern descendants are the Waldorf and Terry, Jimmie's and the double-O, and without doubt these successors will be fondly remembered by present-day undergraduates. The traditions of Harvard are something different--something as old as Harvard but as alive today as ever. The founders planted in their new pledged college seeds of free-thinking, of independence which have proved so fruitful, and succeeding generations have added much. Harvard tradition has grown steadily...
...cars for the sake of their position but they could not afford the most necessary repairs on their farms. As a matter of economic fact they cumbered the ground, and the slow pressure of economic facts at last destroyed them. A thorough, complete dissection of an acute problem in present-day England-well worth reading...