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...disillusioned. ... I now see that the War arose chiefly as the result of deep-rooted economic competition to control the raw materials and markets of the world. For the conflagration, all the nations were guilty together. ... I see a world in which more money is being spent for armaments than at any other period in human history, and that, too, at a time of acute financial depression when millions of men are on the verge of starvation. ... I am convinced that the Church must disentangle itself from the business of war."-Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert, general secretary of the Federal...
...owned by the firm. Of its 20 printing presses, four run 24 hours a day, seven 16 hours. Daily mailing of services averages around three tons. These may be said to represent Standard Statistics' finished product. The manufacturing process consists of compilation, comparison, classification and publication of the raw figures...
Whereas these raw gobbets and undigested morsels of knowledge floated by this too sudden immerston in the Pierian Springs are unpleasant to see hartily regurgitated over a cup of coffee. Whereas a three hour examination can only serve to uncover the lack of knowledge rather than its presence. Wheres these examinations are thus only methods to jam the wind-pipes of the unwilling. Whereas the resulting mental dyspopsis has never yet produced a Carlyle and Whereas, dyspopsis or no dyspopsis, everyone is pretty well fed up: the Vagabond hereby inaugurates his first active crusade. The Examination must go. Alone...
...they can not get beyond the lack of imagination in the American theatre. Even Eugene O'Neill, the paragon of present day critics, is "an unsatisfactory genius." "--it is as an emotionalist, and not as a thinker, that Mr. O'Neill excels. His strength is of the great, raw, shaggy kind that Whitman's has. It is soberer, starker and infinitely more glim. But it is no less torrential, savage as it is, with the same energy, heavy with the same profusion and cumulative in the same headlong...
...world affairs do not seem to have fallen in with the movement. But among the magazines devoting space to literature and literary criticism, the quarterlies alone seem to aim high. Some of the monthly publications have openly turned native, and are now laboring under the naive principle that the raw facts of life are necessarily significant from a literary standpoint, regardless of composition...