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...raw materials of education are facts, ideas, and ideals. Its tools are two minds: one superior, the other inferior, one to impress, the other to be impressed; one to stimulate, the other to respond. This response is education. Given all the rest, if the response be not forthcoming, then scholarly research, elaborate equipment, and the best system in the world are meaningless. There is no education. The one fault which in a professor constitutes an unpardonable sin is failure to interest the rank and file of sincere but uninspired students...
...well remember, as a boy, looking through a microscope into the abdomen of a dead man and seeing all sorts of squirming worms. My father wrote to inquire whether anybody knew what it was. It was stated that the man had eaten raw pork a few days before his death...
...many years U. S. steel makers have largely disregarded their waste products. Meanwhile German steel manufacturers have largely compensated themselves for their inferior supplies of raw materials and their smaller ordinary output, by utilizing to the limit all waste products of steel making. Now U. S. companies are following suit in a manner resembling that followed by Chicago packers with meat products years...
Cattle, however, depend for their value directly on their beef; their hides are a byproduct. Tanners thus lack the control over supplies of their raw material...
...grown to $160,000,000- an increase of 24%. Meanwhile, African trade with the rest of the world had shown an increase of only 140%. This showing is all the more remarkable when it is remembered that Africa is owned by European nations who need her raw materials, and have long cultivated her markets for their goods. There are about 11,500,000 sq. mi. in Africa; England and France control about 4,500,000 sq. mi. of it apiece, Belgium holds about 1,000,000 and the remaining 1,500,000 belongs to Portugal, Italy and other countries...