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...senator had the idea that it was something like the whisky made by bootleggers another that it was made of some kind of bean, and a third that it was an essence of sunflower seed; investigation, however, decided that it comes from a certain part of a cactus blossom, which grows somewhere along the Rio Grande. Its effects were clearly explained by the recorded statement of an Omaha: "After eating thirty-six peyote I got just like drunk, only more so, and more good than when I drink whisky." Another senator had heard that "the effect was to bring about...
...example, American colleges are rapidly becoming melting pots within "the melting pot" and their function has changed from local to national education. Or, if we return to our pansy bed, it has become a mass of varying color such as might be expected from a government package of experimental seed...
...been born. There lies the most vital point. John Harvard, and the benefactors who followed him, whose example has been followed in a host of other colleges, were inspired by a desire to help their own community, but they had no conception of the vast area over which the seed they nourished would bear fruit. When the earlier colleges were planted the small settlements on the Atlantic sea-board were laboriously pushing their way from the shore into the forest; but now their graduates go forth across the long range of hills into the vast plains beyond and through...
...trouble with our joining the ranks of Mr. Gay's hospitable minds seems to be based on a natural modesty. We are not Shakespeares or Chaucers and we dare not take a chance of becoming so by letting our minds go, to seed while Mr. Smith or Mr. Jones devotes all his energies to advertising or electrical engineering. The shout goes up--this is an age of specialization; a man must live. Yet there is a perfectly good answer to these objections. The young Chaucers will take care of themselves, never fear; for the rest of us a consciousness that...
...colony can live, love, and prosper without interference and with reasonable good fortune for any length of time, it should be an immense factor for good. The results will not be startling, or even immediately observable, but they should be both real and salutary. Once a seed is sown and given a good start it can look out for itself if it be from a sturdy plant...