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...endless duplication. The art of selling, including advertising, which occupies many people today is a clear waste which gets the consumer nothing. He calculates that in the U. S. there are 3,552,952 people who are paid, fed, clothed, solely for the purpose of persuading people that one product is bet ter than another. Let's abolish them, he says, or rather put them to producing something and we'll all be much better off. Let's abolish the waste and guarantee every man who is willing to work a decent living, and then...
...word or a new use of an old one? When the best metaphors have become an old story, what can we do but bring together in fresh metaphors ideas that were never brought face to face before and trust them to make friends? Strange bedfellows are the product not of politics only but of poetry. Mr. Auslander's poetry is rich in quick novelties of metaphors some supremely right, some seemingly artificial,--at least until the reader is accustomed to them,--and all true to Mr. Auslander's poetic faith. This faith, sincere and strong, reveals itself anew as often...
...which is one of the most valuable experiences a man can have. Besides this, he acquires an enormous knowledge of the affairs of the world. Finally, his work is compared each day with similar stories in other papers, and thus an extraordinary opportunity for evaluating the worth of his product is offered...
...product of Prof. George P. Baker's Harvard 47 Workshop is true to the pattern, using a revivalistic meeting to disclose the name of the seducer of a girl who has been betrayed, despite her heavily ingrained religiosity. Aside from this feature, chief interest in Roscoe W. Brink's play is atmospheric, its locale being laid in an out-of-the-way community in the Catskills where piety is the main business and every other interest subsidiary. Here, in 1870, the elders, on finding a girl has been misled, hasten her marriage to the son of the village...
...this afternoon will indicate with what effect oarsmen and coaches have spent the many weary months of training which began with the opening of college. The natural interest in a first race of the season will be considerably enhanced, moreover, by the fact that the Harvard crews, are the product of a new set of coaches working under a system distinct from that of last year...