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...general incompetence of subordinates performing duties of responsibility." The reason for this is "because progressive men anxious to bring about social betterment have not had the patience to work things out through the slow process of State action, but have sought to attain results through the quicker and broader scope of the Federal Government." Whatever our troubles nowadays--"if crops fail, if prices go too high or too low, if men gamble or violate some of the Commandments, if alcohol is abused, if morals become loose" --we go to Congress for a law. "The result is more and more...
...collection, unusually large in its scope, extends from 1780 until 1820, and is drawn from the bills of the Drury Lane, Covent Garden, and Haymarket theatres. Before the playbill for March 10, 1788, for the presentation of Macbeth, is a long notice for the Morning Post apparently in the handwriting of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who was at this time lessee of the Drury Lane theatre...
...knowledge that in America a plan for early selectivity would be hooted down with yells varying from "unconstitutional" to "dirty race prejudice." Such accusations, would contain a mead of truth. Any man, it has been said, may in America have an education; not infrequently the statement's scope has been widened to include a university education. Ambitious America thirsts after learning; because that thirst went unrecognized until the teens had stolen upon the box is no reason, in the American tradition, for a refusal to appease it. The European plan of secondary education will need much grafting with American educational...
...unquestionably a pity that a nation which has erected immutable monuments to its heroine cannot perpetuate her memory in a life-like one. But that is apparently considered beyond the permissable scope of dramatized history, which is more widely reviewed than the written accounts and further gives the effect of actuality. If in the case of "Dawn" England has refused to add to national pride by premature sanction, then to it goes the greater glory of pioneering in international sportsmanship...
...time to abandon all hope in the schools and colleges. The latter in particular have made much progress of late years. Rather than try to extend the scope of education, the advocates of liberalism would find it more worth their time to encourage its growth in the existing institutions...