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...Yale is to continue Yale she must have her "social solidarity", if Harvard is to continue Harvard she must have her best traditions in full flourish. Therefore these suggestions from people interested in the future of their universities must not be taken with a grain of salt. They are vital and very necessary...
With the exercise of suitable restraint, this addition serves to flavor the unalterable ace with the salt of humanity. Conversation has indeed its place even at that temple of silence,--the bridge table...
...last analysis, the Yankee also is a creature of God." Styles may shift but, it is Miss Repplier's uncontentious contention, culture itself is not transplanted within half a century. Even if it be allowed that seeds of artistry have thriven somewhat in the western world, at least salt has not been strewn on the soil of Europe...
...Company of Friends of John Hays Hammond", so runs the official title of an organization which gave, one evening last week, not one but eleven dinners. Dinners in Manhattan, Salt Lake City, Denver and San Francisco, dinners as well in London, Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Tokyo, Manila and the Rand. What far flung company of friends is this? They are the friends of a man who has lived a full life?such a life as few men can or even could have lived, the life of John Hays Hammond, most radically democratic millionaire...
...Outside of the time I spent in class rooms I suppose I worked about five hours a week.' That does not seem an excessive requirement for any freshman in college. This boy is the salt of the earth but not a brilliant student and I do not believe he ever worked more than four or five hours a week throughout the year, and yet his record was perfectly satisfactory. He did, however, keep himself in good condition...