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...significance of the case lies in the way Justice Brandeis handles it. Going out of his way to render a liberal interpretation, he draws a wide distinction between billboards and placards, which are an inescapable nuisance to the average person, and advertising in newspapers and magazines, which a reader can easily avoid. The unanimous approval of this attitude by the court is a hopeful sign that they will continue to aid in the restriction of advertising...
...Interfraternity Conference, all contributors to the first issue of The American Scholar are Phi Beta Kappas. Among them: Owen D. Young, Mary Emma Woolley (see p. 14), President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore College, Physicist Karl Taylor Compton, Hermann Hagedorn, John William Davis, Dorothy Canfield Fisher. The casual reader, glancing through the high intellectual pages of The American Scholar, might well wonder if some one had not made a horrible mistake in printing this...
...Unlike Western poetry, a Japanese poem is not intended to express a complete thought but to suggest a series of poetic ideas in the reader's mind...
...subscriber and constant reader of TIME it gives one a strange feeling, a cross between pity and shame, on reading your answer to John Thomas in which one can readily read between the lines your displeasure although camouflaged as news May we, with due respect for your opportunity to' dispense facts, remind you that the greatest pleasures of life are not derived from an ironic discrediting of the good intentions of others, but rather from encouraging their endeavors...
...long been the custom to write of popular heroes with a zeal which prolonged their life and works through six or eight carefully documented volumes. While such biography yielded much rich material to scholars it was a tedious task for the laymen. The average reader cared little for the diplomatic achievements of a Disraeli, but he was most anxious to know what manner of man he might be. This desire Strachey was able to fulfill. He employed sufficient facts to block in his background and enough psychology to sketch in the personality. His first work was followed by a life...