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German literature has its peculiar claim to attention. The Germans are an old people, or group of peoples, but their literature is of relatively recent origin. Coming late into the general European inheritance, they have known how to profit by the experience of their neighbors no less than by their own; and envisaging age-long problems from their own point of view, they have rather given the world a variety of interpretations of life than perfected the forms of traditional art. The Germans are individualists. We Americans doubtless need a profounder sense than most of us have of the excellence...
...independence-talk is manufactured by the big caciques (political and industrial bosses) who want to dispose of the public domain at a fat profit to themselves. Their insincerity is indicated by their naive assumption that independence will be accompanied by some sort of "mandate" or "guarantee" under which the U. S. will protect them. What is there in this...
This total lack of interest in a project that in theory at least is highly commendable is most disappointing. It might be supposed that students would be more than willing to profit from the guidance of a teacher of Dr. Davison's renown. It might be presumed that Harvard students would enjoy learning to sing their own songs. Certainly such experience would save many moments of hopeless embarrassment at banquets and reunions. At other colleges as the press comment from the Princetonian in the next column indicates, the love of a custom of song services is so deeply in-trenched...
These are specific examples of municipal accomplishments, but their achievement has meant the curtailment of profit and privilege for certain traction and utility groups as well as the newspapers owned, controlled, subsidized or amenable to them. Consequently, every statement of the mayor, no matter how buttressed with facts, has been distorted or garbled or ridiculed. But greater than the power of the newspapers and selfish corporate groups is the power of public opinion formed by a day-to-day observation of actual conditions and always dependable at the polls. This may be a consolation for the man who would enter...
Meanwhile, his own companies were making vast profits for part of which the U. S., last week, filed suit in the Federal District Court of Philadelphia for "upwards of $11,000,000." The suit attacked Mr. Schwab because he forced other companies to keep within a 10% profit, but failed to interfere with profits of his own concerns-"Bethlehem...