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...facts; inevitably he is given a sense of responsibility and a degree of interest that he does not feel when he is merely being lectured at, collectively. "Being pumped into," said Carlyle, "is never an exhilarating process." Whatever modern educators may think of most of the opinions of the sage of Choisea, this one at least is worth some of their soberest reflection...
Painful were these revelations to Tokyo's Mayor, popular Hidejiro Nagata, who with flying coattails has opened many a baseball game at Tokyo's Stadium in the Meiji Grounds, and who is a national figure, renowned for sturdy patriotism, sage wit. Though no slightest suspicion pointed at either Mr. Nagata or at any of his kin, he promptly scapegoated, announced his resignation as Mayor of Tokyo with this terse explanation, "I desire to embrace full responsibility...
...unresponsive to the shifting economic thought of the nation. Its membership changes with tim and so does its concept of the law. New ideas, like cosmic rays, have a way of penetrating its ancient wall of detachment and starting little legal revolutions in its august consciousness. Many a sage observer believes that the Supreme Court today would reverse itself on child labor, would find a way to sustain minimum wage legislation...
...supply a basis for the formulation of large national policies looking to the next phase in the nation's development." The committee: Wesley Clair Mitchell, chairman. Professor of Economics at Columbia: Charles Edward Merriam. Professor of Political Science at Chicago; Shelby Millard Harrison, general director of the Russell Sage Foundation; Alice Hamilton of the Harvard School of Public Health: Howard Washington Odum, Professor...
...post-War flapper. Next came two costume parts (in Will Shakespeare and Casanova), two mistakes (The Way Things Happen, The Outsider), a scarlet misstep with David Belasco (Tiger Cats), and then Candida. George Bernard Shaw has never met Katharine Cornell. One look at her photograph, however, and the bearded sage of Adelphi Terrace pronounced her the best Candida who ever played the part...